Reflections of root lattices for Kac-Moody algebras (Q1911780)

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Reflections of root lattices for Kac-Moody algebras
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    Reflections of root lattices for Kac-Moody algebras (English)
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    28 November 1996
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    The author builds on work of \textit{C. Bennett} [J. Algebra 158, 244-267 (1993; Zbl 0795.17031)] to give a necessary and sufficient condition for a primitive element \(\alpha\) (with \((\alpha, \alpha) \neq 0\)) of the root lattice \(Q\) of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra \(g\) with symmetrizable Cartan matrix) to satisfy \(r_\alpha \Delta= \Delta\) where \(\Delta\) is the root system of \(g\). He also obtains some partial results towards determining which \(\alpha\in Q\) satisfy \(r_\alpha Q=Q\).
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    Kac-Moody Lie algebras
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    root systems
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    root lattices
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    reflections
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