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The K-theory of the conjugation action
Jeffrey D. Carlson1
1 Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 359 (2021) no. 7, pp. 795-796.

In 1999, Brylinski and Zhang computed the complex equivariant K-theory of the conjugation self-action of a compact, connected Lie group with torsion-free fundamental group. In this note we show it is possible to do so in under a page.

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DOI: 10.5802/crmath.235

Jeffrey D. Carlson 1

1 Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, London SW7 2AZ, UK
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Jeffrey D. Carlson. The K-theory of the conjugation action. Comptes Rendus. Mathématique, Volume 359 (2021) no. 7, pp. 795-796. doi : 10.5802/crmath.235. https://comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/mathematique/articles/10.5802/crmath.235/

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