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Wikipedia webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Lie_group contains a full list of all simple (centerless) real Lie groups. One of the columns in tables (therein) contains fundamental groups of these Lie groups, or - in other words - the centers of their universal covers. I wonder where can I can find information on these centers. I'm aware of an old paper by Sirota and Solodovnikov [Noncompact semisimple Lie groups, Russian Mathematical Surveys, 1963, Volume 18, Issue 3, 85-140], which would be enough for me, but - according to Freudenthal's (!) review in Mathematical Reviews - their article contains a number of errors. Moreover, description of the centers given in that paper (or, to be more precise, in its English translation) is incompatible with the list on the aforementioned Wikipedia webpage. (For example, in this translation one finds that the center of the simply connected Lie group whose Lie algebra is split of type E6 is infinite cyclic, which is surely false, because a maximal compact subgroup of its centerfree `version' is semisimple). Could anyone help me and give any reference to the above topic (i.e., centra of simply connected simple real Lie groups)? (I'm mostly interested in books/articles/etc. written in English, but if no such exist, any other will also be acceptable).

Wikipedia webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Lie_group contains a full list of all simple (centerless) real Lie groups. One of the columns in tables (therein) contains fundamental groups of these Lie groups, or - in other words - the centers of their universal covers. I wonder where can I find information on these centers. I'm aware of an old paper by Sirota and Solodovnikov [Noncompact semisimple Lie groups, Russian Mathematical Surveys, 1963, Volume 18, Issue 3, 85-140], which would be enough for me, but - according to Freudenthal's (!) review in Mathematical Reviews - their article contains a number of errors. Moreover, description of the centers given in that paper (or, to be more precise, in its English translation) is incompatible with the list on the aforementioned Wikipedia webpage. (For example, in this translation one finds that the center of the simply connected Lie group whose Lie algebra is split of type E6 is infinite cyclic, which is surely false, because a maximal compact subgroup of its centerfree `version' is semisimple). Could anyone help me and give any reference to the above topic (i.e., centra of simply connected simple real Lie groups)? (I'm mostly interested in books/articles/etc. written in English, but if no such exist, any other will also be acceptable).

Wikipedia webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Lie_group contains a full list of all simple (centerless) real Lie groups. One of the columns in tables (therein) contains fundamental groups of these Lie groups, or - in other words - the centers of their universal covers. I wonder where I can find information on these centers. I'm aware of an old paper by Sirota and Solodovnikov [Noncompact semisimple Lie groups, Russian Mathematical Surveys, 1963, Volume 18, Issue 3, 85-140], which would be enough for me, but - according to Freudenthal's (!) review in Mathematical Reviews - their article contains a number of errors. Moreover, description of the centers given in that paper (or, to be more precise, in its English translation) is incompatible with the list on the aforementioned Wikipedia webpage. (For example, in this translation one finds that the center of the simply connected Lie group whose Lie algebra is split of type E6 is infinite cyclic, which is surely false, because a maximal compact subgroup of its centerfree `version' is semisimple). Could anyone help me and give any reference to the above topic (i.e., centra of simply connected simple real Lie groups)? (I'm mostly interested in books/articles/etc. written in English, but if no such exist, any other will also be acceptable).

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Reliable literature with the list of centers of all simply connected simple real Lie groups

Wikipedia webpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Lie_group contains a full list of all simple (centerless) real Lie groups. One of the columns in tables (therein) contains fundamental groups of these Lie groups, or - in other words - the centers of their universal covers. I wonder where can I find information on these centers. I'm aware of an old paper by Sirota and Solodovnikov [Noncompact semisimple Lie groups, Russian Mathematical Surveys, 1963, Volume 18, Issue 3, 85-140], which would be enough for me, but - according to Freudenthal's (!) review in Mathematical Reviews - their article contains a number of errors. Moreover, description of the centers given in that paper (or, to be more precise, in its English translation) is incompatible with the list on the aforementioned Wikipedia webpage. (For example, in this translation one finds that the center of the simply connected Lie group whose Lie algebra is split of type E6 is infinite cyclic, which is surely false, because a maximal compact subgroup of its centerfree `version' is semisimple). Could anyone help me and give any reference to the above topic (i.e., centra of simply connected simple real Lie groups)? (I'm mostly interested in books/articles/etc. written in English, but if no such exist, any other will also be acceptable).