Images and quotients of SO(3,R): remarks on a theorem of Van der Waerden

DOI10.1216/RMJ-1987-17-1-1zbMath0682.22007MaRDI QIDQ1824045

Lewis C. Robertson, W. Wistar Comfort

Publication date: 1987

Published in: Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

compact groupssimple Lie groupscontinuity of homomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Compact groups (22C05)

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