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Book Information:
Authors:
A. J. Hahn and
O. T. O'Meara
Title:
The classical groups and $K$-theory
Additional book information:
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, New York, 1989, 565 pp., $119.00. ISBN 3-540-17758-2.
H. Bass, J. Milnor, and J.-P. Serre, Solution of the congruence subgroup problem for $\textrm {SL}_{n}\,(n\geq 3)$ and $\textrm {Sp}_{2n}\,(n\geq 2)$, Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 33 (1967), 59–137. MR 244257
Armand Borel, On the automorphisms of certain subgroups of semi-simple Lie groups. , Algebraic Geometry (Internat. Colloq., Tata Inst. Fund. Res., Bombay, 1968) Oxford Univ. Press, London, 1969, pp. 43–73. MR 0259020
Armand Borel and Jacques Tits, Homomorphismes “abstraits” de groupes algébriques simples, Ann. of Math. (2) 97 (1973), 499–571 (French). MR 316587, DOI 10.2307/1970833
4. J. Dieudonné, La géométrie des groupes classiques, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1962.
Hermann Weyl, The classical groups, Princeton Landmarks in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997. Their invariants and representations; Fifteenth printing; Princeton Paperbacks. MR 1488158
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- H. Bass, J. Milnor, and J.-P. Serre, Solution of the congruence subgroup problem for SL, Publ. Math. IHES 33 (1967), 59-137. MR 0244257
- 2.
- A. Borel, On the automorphisms of certain subgroups of semi-simple Lie groups, Proc. Conf. on Algebraic Geometry, Bombay, Oxford University Press, Oxford, England, 1969, pp. 43-73. MR 259020
- 3.
- A. Borel and J. Tits, Homomorphismes "abstraits" des groupes algébriques simples, Ann. of Math. 97 (1973), 499-571. MR 316587
- 4.
- J. Dieudonné, La géométrie des groupes classiques, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1962.
- 5.
- H. Weyl, The classical groups, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N. J., 1946. MR 1488158
Review Information:
Reviewer:
Robert Steinberg
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
23 (1990), 594-598
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15995-6
