Commuting Elements in Lie Groups

  • Date: 04/05/2006
Lecturer(s):

Enrique Torres-Giese (University of British Columbia)

Location: 

University of British Columbia

Topic: 

In this talk we discuss the topology and geometry of the space of pairs of commuting elements in a Lie group. We will see part of the work of Adem and Cohen on SU(2) as well as some recent advances in the case of U(2).

Sponsor: 

pims