Mathematical Sciences: Faculty Publications

On the Kostant convexity theorem

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-1992

Publication Title

The American Mathematical Society

DOI

0.1090/S0002-9939-1992-1111441-7

Abstract

A quick proof that the coadjoint orbits of a compact connected Lie group project onto convex polytopes in the dual of a Cartan subalgebra.

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