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Isospectral deformations of the Lagrangian Grassmannians

Jacques Gasqui, Hubert Goldschmidt (2007)

Annales de l’institut Fourier

We study the special Lagrangian Grassmannian S U ( n ) / S O ( n ) , with n 3 , and its reduced space, the reduced Lagrangian Grassmannian X . The latter is an irreducible symmetric space of rank n - 1 and is the quotient of the Grassmannian S U ( n ) / S O ( n ) under the action of a cyclic group of isometries of order n . The main result of this paper asserts that the symmetric space X possesses non-trivial infinitesimal isospectral deformations. Thus we obtain the first example of an irreducible symmetric space of arbitrary rank 2 , which is...

Kikkawa loops and homogeneous loops

Michihiko Kikkawa (2004)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

In H. Kiechle's publication ``Theory of K-loops'' [3], the name Kikkawa loops is given to symmetric loops introduced by the author in 1973. This concept started from an analogical imagination of sum of vectors in Euclidean space brought up on a sphere. In 1975, this concept was extended by him to the more general concept of homogeneous loops, and it led us to a non-associative generalization of the theory of Lie groups. In this article, the backstage of finding these concepts will be disclosed from...

Knots in S 2 x S 1 derived from Sym(2, ℝ)

Sang Lee, Yongdo Lim, Chan-Young Park (2000)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

We realize closed geodesics on the real conformal compactification of the space V = Sym(2, ℝ) of all 2 × 2 real symmetric matrices as knots or 2-component links in S 2 × S 1 and show that these knots or links have certain types of symmetry of period 2.

Le complexe de Koszul en algèbre et topologie

Stephen Halperin (1987)

Annales de l'institut Fourier

The Koszul complex, as introduced in 1950, was a differential graded algebra which modelled a principal fibre bundle. Since then it has been an effective tool, both in algebra and in topology, for the calculation of homological and homotopical invariants. After a partial summary of these results we recall more recent generalizations of this complex, and some applications.

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