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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.
- 1.
H.
Bass, J.
Milnor, and J.-P.
Serre, Solution of the congruence subgroup problem for
𝑆𝐿_{𝑛}(𝑛≥3) and
𝑆𝑝_{2𝑛}(𝑛≥2), Inst. Hautes
Études Sci. Publ. Math. 33 (1967), 59–137. MR 0244257
(39 #5574)
- 2.
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
(41 #3663)
- 3.
Armand
Borel and Jacques
Tits, Homomorphismes “abstraits” de groupes
algébriques simples, Ann. of Math. (2) 97
(1973), 499–571 (French). MR 0316587
(47 #5134)
- 4.
J. Dieudonné, La géométrie des groupes classiques, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1962.
- 5.
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 (98k:01049)
- 1.
- H. Bass, J. Milnor, and J.-P. Serre, Solution of the congruence subgroup problem for SL, Publ. Math. IHES 33 (1967), 59-137. MR 244257
- 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:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1990-15995-6
PII:
S 0273-0979(1990)15995-6
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