Curvatures of left invariant metrics on lie groups

1976/09/01 by John Milnor · 1,316 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Adjoint representation of a Lie algebra #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows #Invariant (physics) #Lie conformal algebra #Lie group #Lie theory #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Pure mathematics #Simple Lie group

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/s0001-8708(76)80002-3

published in Advances in Mathematics 21(3), 293-329 (Elsevier BV)

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