Samelson products in p-regular SO(2n) and its homotopy normality

Abstract

A Lie group is called $p$-regular if it has the $p$-local homotopy type of a product of spheres. (Non)triviality of the Samelson products of the inclusions of the factor spheres into $p$-regular $\mathrm{SO}(2n)_{(p)}$ is determined, which completes the list of (non)triviality of such Samelson products in $p$-regular simple Lie groups. As an application, we determine the homotopy normality of the inclusion $\mathrm{SO}(2n-1)\to\mathrm{SO}(2n)$ in the sense of James at any prime $p$.