Elementary groups and invertibility for kantor pairs (Q4237101)

The known connection between the concepts of invertibility and quasi-invertibility in a Jordan pair and questions of factorization in the associated elementary group [see \textit{O.~Loos}, K-theory 9, 77-116 (1995; 835.17021)] is very nicely extended in this paper to Kantor pairs. Roughly speaking, a Jordan pair consists of the \(\pm 1\)-homogeneous subspaces of a \(3\)-graded Lie algebra \(L=L_1\oplus L_0\oplus L_{-1}\), while a Kantor pair consists of the \(\pm 1\)-homogeneous subspaces of a \(5\)-graded Lie algebra \(L=L_2\oplus L_1\oplus L_0\oplus L_{-1}\oplus L_{-2}\). The notion of invertibility obtained in this setting covers and extends to previous notions for structurable algebras by \textit{B. N.~Allison} and \textit{W.~Hein} [J. Algebra 69, 120-142 (1981; Zbl 0462.17002)]. Specific attention is paid to some pairs, termed \(3\)-special Kantor pairs, which include all Jordan pairs and the Kantor pairs of Hermitian forms.