Quillen's theorem on buildings and the loops on a symmetric space

zbMath0704.55006MaRDI QIDQ917074

Stephen A. Mitchell

Publication date: 1988

Published in: L'Enseignement Mathématique. 2e Série (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

flag varietyloop groupscompact Lie groupBott periodicityTits systemBott-Samelson theoremsSchubert cell decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop spaces (55P35) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10) Affine algebraic groups, hyperalgebra constructions (14L17)

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