Fundamental groups of split real Kac-Moody groups and generalized real flag manifolds (Q6155899)

Let \(\Pi\) be an irreducible Dynkin diagram such that the Bruhat decomposition of \(G(\Pi)\) provides a CW decomposition. Here, \(G(\Pi)\) is the algebraically simply-connected split real semisimple Kac-Moody group associated to an irreducible diagram. Also denote as Spin\((\Pi,\kappa)\), where \(\kappa\) denotes a so-called admissible colouring of the vertices of \(\Pi\), is defined as the canonical universal enveloping group of a Spin\((2)\)-amalgam \(A(\Pi, \mathrm{Spin}(2))\) In the paper under review, the fundamental groups \(\pi_1(G(\Pi))\) and \(\pi_1(\mathrm{Spin}(\Pi,\kappa)\) are caculated.