Weyl groupoids with at most three objects. (Q1008760)

In the paper [Math. Z. 259, No. 2, 255-276 (2008; Zbl 1198.20036)] the second author and \textit{H. Yamane} introduced an axiomatic definition of a generalization of root systems, based on properties of the root systems of Nichols algebras of diagonal type. As studied by the second author [Invent. Math. 164, No. 1, 175-188 (2006; Zbl 1174.17011)], the last arise in the classification of pointed Hopf algebras developed by \textit{N. Andruskiewitsch} and \textit{H.-J. Schneider} [Adv. Math. 154, No. 1, 1-45 (2000; Zbl 1007.16027), ``On the classification of finite-dimensional pointed Hopf algebras'', to appear in Ann. Math., \url{arXiv:math.QA/0502157} (2005)]. In the paper under review, the authors reformulate this generalization of root systems to the terminology of category theory. They introduce Cartan schemes, associated root systems and Weyl groupoids, and discuss its main properties. These are applied to give the classification of Weyl groupoids of finite irreducible connected root systems with at most 3 invertible objects: the authors prove that such a Weyl groupoid is either standard or it is one among 9 exceptional cases. As a consequence, they prove that there exist root systems associated to some non-standard Cartan schemes which cannot be obtained as a root system of a finite-dimensional Nichols algebra of diagonal type.