On the structure of Jacobi sets (Q1106927)

The concept of root system has been axiomatized and generalized in recent years for possible use in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras of characteristic \(p>0\). In this paper the author investigates the structure of Jacobi sets. A Jacobi set R is a symmetry set [\textit{D. Winter}, J. Algebra 73, 238-247 (1981; Zbl 0489.17010)] in which whenever a, b, c, \(a+b\), \((a+b)+c\in R\), \(a\neq -b\), and either \((a\hat +b)=\hat 0\) and \(\hat c=\hat 0\) or \((a\hat +b)\neq \hat 0\) and \(\hat c\neq \hat 0\), then \(a+c\in R\) or \(b+c\in R\), where \(\hat a\in Hom(Hom(R,{\mathbb{Z}}),{\mathbb{Z}})\) is defined by \(\hat a(f)=f(a)\) for \(a\in R\), \(f\in Hom(R,{\mathbb{Z}})\). He is able to show that, under certain additional conditions, \(R=S\oplus R_ 0\), where \(S\cong \hat R\) is a system of roots in the sense of Bourbaki with 0 added and \(R_ 0=\cup^{k}_{i=1}{\mathbb{Z}}_ p^{n_ i}\) for some k.