Representations of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras (Q2365778)

During the last two decades the Kac-Moody Lie algebras and their representations have been found to be related to numerous mathematical and physical theories. However, most of these connections have been established with affine Lie algebras and their representations. Very few results are known which are really intrinsic to the non-affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras. For instance, very little information is available about the root and weight multiplicities for non-affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras. In this paper, the authors have taken an important step towards the understanding of the intrinsic structure of the highest weight modules for non-affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras. In particular, they have given explicit constructions of certain representations of hyperbolic and Lorentzian Kac-Moody Lie algebras. When the Dynkin diagram of the algebra can be obtained by adjoining a node by one line to an affine diagram, this construction of representations gives all irreducible highest weight modules for the algebra. Finally, the authors apply their construction to obtain level two weight multiplicities in the fundamental modules for the simplest rank three hyperbolic Kac-Moody Lie algebra.