The Bruhat Decomposition
The Bruhat Decomposition
复制标题
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4614-8024-2_27
复制
发表时间:
2013
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
D. Bump
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
D. Bump
The Bruhat decomposition was discovered quite late in the history of Lie groups, which is surprising in view of its fundamental importance. It was preceded by Ehresmann’s discovery of a closely related cell decomposition for flag manifolds. The Bruhat decomposition was axiomatized by Tits in the notion of aGroup with(B,N)pairorTits’ system. This is a generalization of the notion of a Coxeter group, and indeed every (B,N) gives rise to a Coxeter group. We have remarked after Theorem 25.1 that Coxeter groups always act on simplicial complexes whose geometry is closely connected with their properties. As it turns out a group with (BN) pair also acts on a simplicial complex, theTits’ building. We will not have space to discuss this important concept but see Tits [163] and Abramenko and Brown [1].