Kac-Moody groups, hovels and Littelmann paths (Q999693)

The authors give the definition of a kind of building \(\mathcal{I}\) for a symmetrizable Kac-Moody group over a field \(K\) endowed with a discrete valuation and with a residue field containing \(\mathbb{C}\), which they call a \textit{hovel}, due to its pathological behaviour. This concept allows them to generalize some previous results obtained by themselves, separately, and in a joint paper of \textit{St. Gaussent} and \textit{P. Littelmann} [Duke Math. J. 127, 35--88 (2005; Zbl 1078.22007)], by introducing a new set \({\mathcal I}\) associated with the Kac-Moody group \(G\) over \(K = {\mathbb C}((t))\), or, even more generally, over any discretely valuated field \(K\) with residue field containing \({\mathbb C}\). By using that concept they get good generalizations of Gaussent-Littelmann's results and obtain a new result which is an analogue of some previous ones in the semisimple case. In the two last sections they give the definitions of LS paths, Hecke paths, dual dimension and codimension, and they prove some characterizations of them.