The order of the commutator on SU(3) and an application to gauge groups

作者：Kono A^*; Theriault S

来源：Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society Simon Stevin, 2013, 20(2): 359-370.

• SU(3)
• commutator
• order
• gauge group
• homotopy type

We show that the commutator map on SU(3) has order 2(3) . 3 . 5. As an application, we give an upper bound on the number of homotopy types of gauge groups for principal SU(3)-bundles over an n-sphere.

• 出版日期2013-6