On conjugacy classes in the Lie group E₈

2013/09/05 by G. Lusztig, Lusztig, G.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Algebra and Geometry #Advanced Differential Geometry Research #FOS: Mathematics #Geometry and complex manifolds #Representation Theory (math.RT)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.1382

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Abstract

This is based on a talk given at the AMS/RMS joint meeting in June 2013, Alba Iulia. The main theme is that the conjugacy classes in the Lie group E₈ should be (roughly) parametrized by conjugacy classes in the corresponding Weyl group.

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