Generalized spin representations

Authors Guntram Hainke, Ralf Köhl (né Gramlich), Paul Levy

Publication date 25 October 2011

Abstract: We introduce the notion of a generalized spin representation of the maximal compact subalgebra of a symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebra in order to show that, if defined over a formally real field, every such subalgebra has a non-trivial reductive finite-dimensional quotient. The appendix illustrates how to compute the isomorphism types of these quotients for the real

E_{n}

series. In passing this provides an elementary way of determining the isomorphism types of the maximal compact subalgebras of the semisimple split real Lie algebras of types

E_{6}

,

E_{7}

,

E_{8}

.

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