The homology of the space of affine flags containing a nilpotent element
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Abstract:
We show that the homology of the space of Iwahori subalgebras containing a nilpotent element of a split semisimple Lie algebra over $\mathbf {C}((\varepsilon ))$ is isomorphic to the homology of the entire affine flag manifold.References
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Additional Information
- E. Sommers
- Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
- Email: esommers@math.mit.edu
- Received by editor(s): December 20, 1995
- Received by editor(s) in revised form: February 12, 1996
- Additional Notes: Research supported by the NSF
- Communicated by: Roe W. Goodman
- © Copyright 1997 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 125 (1997), 2481-2484
- MSC (1991): Primary 58B25
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03821-5
- MathSciNet review: 1377007