Abstract simplicity of locally compact Kac-Moody groups

DOI10.1112/S0010437X13007598MaRDI QIDQ2877499zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Timothée Marquis

Publication date 22 August 2014

Published in Compositio Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3681

zbMATH Keywords

abstract simplicitycomplete Kac-Moody groupscontraction groupsroot groupstopological Kac-Moody groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple groups (20E32) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

Abstract: In this paper, we establish that complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields are abstractly simple. The proof makes an essential use of Mathieu-Rousseau's construction of complete Kac-Moody groups over fields. This construction has the advantage that both real and imaginary root spaces of the Lie algebra lift to root subgroups over arbitrary fields. A key point in our proof is the fact, of independent interest, that both real and imaginary root subgroups are contracted by conjugation of positive powers of suitable Weyl group elements.

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