Bott periodicity for inclusions of symmetric spaces
Documenta mathematica, Tome 17 (2012), pp. 911-952
When looking at Bott's original proof of his periodicity theorem for the stable homotopy groups of the orthogonal and unitary groups, one sees in the background a differential geometric periodicity phenomenon. We show that this geometric phenomenon extends to the standard inclusion of the orthogonal group into the unitary group. Standard inclusions between other classical Riemannian symmetric spaces are considered as well. An application to homotopy theory is also discussed.
Classification :
53C35, 53C40, 55R45
Mots-clés : symmetric spaces, shortest geodesics, reflective submanifolds, Bott periodicity
Mots-clés : symmetric spaces, shortest geodesics, reflective submanifolds, Bott periodicity
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author = {Augustin-Liviu Mare and Peter Quast},
title = {Bott periodicity for inclusions of symmetric spaces},
journal = {Documenta mathematica},
pages = {911--952},
year = {2012},
volume = {17},
doi = {10.4171/dm/385},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.4171/dm/385/}
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Augustin-Liviu Mare; Peter Quast. Bott periodicity for inclusions of symmetric spaces. Documenta mathematica, Tome 17 (2012), pp. 911-952. doi: 10.4171/dm/385
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