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On Macdonald's formula for the volume of a compact Lie group

Yoshitake Hashimoto

Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici · 1997 · 13 citations · 3 references

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Abstract

We give a simple proof of Macdonald's formula for the volume of a compact Lie group.

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