Continuity of
-Perfection for Compact Lie Groups
Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo Norway; fausk{at}math.uio.no
LAGA, Institut Galilée Av. J-B Clément, 93430 Villetaneuse, France; bobol{at}math.univ-paris13.fr
Received 13 May 2003. Revision received 18 November 2003.
Let G be a compact Lie group, and let
be any prime or set of primes. A
-perfection map is constructed: that is, a continuous function from the space of conjugacy classes of all closed subgroups of G to the space of conjugacy classes of
-perfect subgroups with finite index in their normalizer. This is used to show that the idempotent elements of the Burnside ring of G localized at
are in bijective correspondence with the open and closed subsets of the space of conjugacy classes of
-perfect subgroups of G with finite index in their normalizer. 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification 55P91 (primary).
The second author was partially supported by UMR 7539 of the CNRS.