Cartan determinants and Shapovalov forms (Q1865568)

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      Cartan determinants and Shapovalov forms (English)
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      27 March 2003
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      The authors compute the determinant of the Gram matrix of the Shapovalov form on weight spaces of the basic representation of an affine Kac-Moody algebra of ADE type (possibly twisted). As a consequence, they obtain explicit formulae for the determinants of the Cartan matrices of \(p\)-blocks of the symmetric group and its double cover, and of the associated Hecke algebras at root of unity.
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      Cartan determinants
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      Shapovalov forms
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