Timeline for Intuition for symplectic groups
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| Oct 19, 2017 at 20:16 | vote | accept | Robin Goodfellow | ||
| Aug 15, 2017 at 19:58 | comment | added | Robin Goodfellow | @RichardMontgomery Indeed, I understand that $\mathrm{Sp}_2\mathbb{R}=\mathrm{SL}_2\mathbb{R}$ and that they are diffeomorphic to the interior of a solid torus (an open disk times a circle). | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 18:40 | comment | added | Richard Montgomery | Robin: do I assume correctly that you understand that the lowest dimensional one is $SL(2, {\mathbb R})$ which forms a solid three-dimensional torus? | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 23:00 | comment | added | Vít Tuček | arxiv.org/abs/math/9905052 | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 19:43 | answer | added | Jean-Philippe Burelle | timeline score: 14 | |
| Aug 14, 2017 at 2:48 | answer | added | Victor Protsak | timeline score: 12 | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 14:04 | comment | added | Carlo Beenakker | you might find John Baez's blog helpful [it certainly helped me] | |
| Aug 13, 2017 at 13:54 | history | asked | Robin Goodfellow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |