Abstract simplicity of complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2008.03.023MaRDI QIDQ932284zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lisa Carbone, Mikhail Ershov, William Gordon Ritter

Publication date 10 July 2008

Published in Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612772

zbMATH Keywords

simple groupsKac-Moody groupscomplete groupsgeneralized Cartan matricesBN-pairs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Simple groups (20E32)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a Kac-Moody group over a finite field corresponding to a generalized Cartan matrix $A$, as constructed by Tits. It is known that $G$ admits the structure of a BN-pair, and acts on its corresponding building. We study the complete Kac-Moody group $hatG$ which is defined to be the closure of $G$ in the automorphism group of its building. Our main goal is to determine when complete Kac-Moody groups are abstractly simple, that is have no proper non-trivial normal subgroups. Abstract simplicity of $hatG$ was previously known to hold when A is of affine type. We extend this result to many indefinite cases, including all hyperbolic generalized Cartan matrices $A$ of rank at least four. Our proof uses Tits' simplicity theorem for groups with a BN-pair and methods from the theory of pro-$p$ groups.

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