A lecture on Kac--Moody Lie algebras of the arithmetic type

Details A lecture on Kac--Moody Lie algebras of the arithmetic type A lecture on Kac--Moody Lie algebras of the arithmetic type

1994-12-06

arxiv.org/abs/alg-geom/9412003v1

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Algebraic Geometry

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We name an indecomposable symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix $A$ and the corresponding Kac--Moody Lie algebra ${\goth g} ^\prime (A)$ {\it of the arithmetic type} if for any $\beta \in Q$ with $(\beta | \beta)<0$ there exist $n(\beta )\in {\Bbb N}$ and an imaginary root $\alpha \in \Delta^{im}$ such that $n(\beta )\beta \equiv \alpha \mod Ker\ (.|.)$ on $Q$. Here $Q$ is the root lattice. This generalizes "symmetrizable hyperbolic" type of Kac and Moody. We show that generalized Cartan matrices of the arithmetic type are divided in $4$ types: (a) finite, (b) affine, (c) rank two, and (d) arithmetic hyperbolic type. The last type is very closely related with arithmetic groups generated by reflections in hyperbolic spaces with the field of definition $\Bbb Q$. We apply results of the author and \'E.B. Vinberg on arithmetic groups generated by reflections in hyperbolic spaces to describe generalized Cartan matrices of the arithmetic hyperbolic type and to show that there exists a finite set of series of the generalized Cartan matrices of the arithmetic hyperbolic type. For the symmetric case all these series are known.

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