Cohomology of orbits of compact Lie groups
In: Bulletin de la Classe des Sciences de l'Académie Royale de Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 51-71
We give a new, purely algebraic proof of the vanishing of the third de Rham cohomology group of an orbit of a compact Lie group. This proof is based on two lemmas on root systems and on a cubic identity satisfied by the structure constants of a simple complex Lie algebra.