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Journal of Generalized Lie Theory and Applications

Journal of Generalized Lie Theory and Applications

ISSN: 1736-4337

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Centralizers of Commuting Elements in Compact Lie Groups

Abstract

Kris A Nairn

The moduli space for a flat G-bundle over the two-torus is completely determined by its holonomy representation. When G is compact, connected, and simply connected, we show that the moduli space is homeomorphic to a product of two tori mod the action of the Weyl group, or equivalently to the conjugacy classes of commuting pairs of elements in G. Since the component group for a non-simply connected group is given by some finite dimensional subgroup in the centralizer of an n-tuple, we use diagram automorphisms of the extended Dynkin diagram to prove properties of centralizers of pairs of elements in G.

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