Abelian ideals of a Borel subalgebra and root systems (Q2256066)

Summary: Let \(\mathfrak g\) be a simple Lie algebra and \(\mathfrak {Ab}^o\) the poset of non-trivial abelian ideals of a fixed Borel subalgebra of \(\mathfrak g\). In the author's paper [Int. Math. Res. Not. 2003, No. 35, 1889--1913 (2003; Zbl 1067.17004)], he constructed a partition \(\mathfrak {Ab}^o =\sqcup_\mu \mathfrak {Ab}_\mu\) parametrised by the long positive roots of \(\mathfrak g\) and studied the subposets \(\mathfrak {Ab}_\mu\). In this note, he shows that this partition is compatible with intersections, relate it to the Kostant-Peterson parametrisation and to the centralisers of abelian ideals. We also prove that the poset of positive roots of \(\mathfrak g\) is a join-semilattice.