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Rational Homotopy Theory of Flag Varieties Associated to Kac-Moody Groups

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This paper is a sequel to my earlier paper “Geometry of Schubert cells and cohomology of Kac-Moody Lie-algebras”. It uses many results from the paper, just mentioned, in an essential manner.

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  1. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Shrawan Kumar

  2. Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Colaba, Bombay, India

    Shrawan Kumar

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    V. Kac

  2. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1000 Centennial Drive, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    V. Kac

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Kumar, S. (1985). Rational Homotopy Theory of Flag Varieties Associated to Kac-Moody Groups. In: Kac, V. (eds) Infinite Dimensional Groups with Applications. Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, vol 4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1104-4_9

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