DOCUMENTA MATHEMATICA, Extra Volume ICM II (1998), 433-442

W. G. Dwyer 

Title: Lie Groups and p-Compact Groups 

A $p$-compact group is the homotopical ghost of a compact Lie group; it is 
the residue that remains after the geometry and algebra have been stripped 
away. This paper sketches the theory of
$p$-compact groups, with the intention of illustrating the fact that many 
classical structural properties of compact Lie groups depend only on