Affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras in the language of SGA3 (Q2690461)

Given a field \(\mathbb{K}\) of characteristic \(0\), Kac-Moody Lie algebras are defined by generators and relations encoded in a generalized Cartan matrix \(A\). If \(A\) is a Cartan matrix of type \(X\), then the corresponding Kac-Moody Lie algebra is the split simple finite-dimensional \(\mathbb{K}\)-Lie algebra of type \(X\). In infinite-dimensional Lie theory, the affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras and groups play a distinguished role due to their many applications to various areas of mathematics and physics. Underlying these infinite-dimensional objects there are closely related group schemes and Lie algebras of finite type over Laurent polynomial rings. The language of SGA3 is perfectly suited to describe such objects. The authors provide a natural description of the affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras using this language.