Cohomology of Kac–Moody groups over a finite field

Aguadé, Jaume¹ ; Ruiz, Albert¹

¹Departament de Matemàtiques, Facultat de Ciències, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain

Algebraic and Geometric Topology, Tome 13 (2013) no. 4, pp. 2207-2238

Résumé

We compute the mod p cohomology algebra of a family of infinite discrete Kac–Moody groups of rank two defined over finite fields of characteristic different from p.

Détail

DOI : 10.2140/agt.2013.13.2207

Classification : 55R35, 81R10, 20G44
Keywords: cohomology, classifying spaces, Kac–Moody groups

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