TY - BOOK AU - Borel,Armand AU - Friedman,Robert AU - Morgan,John W. TI - Almost commuting elements in compact Lie groups T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, SN - 9781470403409 (online) AV - QA3QA387 .A57 no. 747 U1 - 510 s512/.55 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Providence, R.I. PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Lie groups KW - Compact groups KW - Root systems (Algebra) N1 - "Volume 157, number 747 (third of 5 numbers)."; Includes bibliographical references (p. 127); 1. Introduction; 2. Almost commuting $N$-tuples; 3. Some characterizations of groups of type $A$; 4. $c$-pairs; 5. Commuting triples; 6. Some results on diagram automorphisms and associated root systems; 7. The fixed subgroup of an automorphism; 8. $C$-triples; 9. The tori $\bar {S}(k)$ and $\bar {S}^{w_C}(\bar {\mathbf {g}},k)$ and their Weyl groups; 10. The Chern-Simons invariant; 11. The case when $\langle C\rangle $ is not cyclic; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012 UR - http://www.ams.org/memo/0747 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/memo/0747 ER -