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On the structure of spaces of commuting elements in compact Lie groups

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In this note we study topological invariants of the spaces of homomorphisms Hom(π, G), where π is a finitely generated abelian group and G is a compact Lie group arising as an arbitrary finite product of the classical groups SU(r), U(q) and Sp(k).

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  1. Alejandro Adem
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  2. José Manuel Gómez
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A. Bjorner F. Cohen C. De Concini C. Procesi M. Salvetti

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Adem, A., Gómez, J.M. (2012). On the structure of spaces of commuting elements in compact Lie groups. In: Bjorner, A., Cohen, F., De Concini, C., Procesi, C., Salvetti, M. (eds) Configuration Spaces. CRM Series. Edizioni della Normale, Pisa. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-7642-431-1_1

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