Loops in noncompact groups and factorization

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Authors Arlo Caine, Doug Pickrell

Publication date 2 January 2015

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Loop groups and related constructions, group-theoretic treatment (22E67)

Abstract: In [11] we showed that a loop in a simply connected compact Lie group $dotU$ has a unique Birkhoff (or triangular) factorization if and only if the loop has a unique root subgroup factorization (relative to a choice of a reduced sequence of simple reflections in the affine Weyl group). In this paper our main purpose is to investigate Birkhoff and root subgroup factorization for loops in a noncompact type semisimple Lie group $dot{G}_0$ of inner type. In [4] we showed that for an element of $dot{G}_0$, i.e. a constant loop, there is a unique Birkhoff factorization if and only if there is a root subgroup factorization. However for loops in $dot{G}_0$, while a root subgroup factorization implies a unique Birkhoff factorization, there are several obstacles to the converse. As in the compact case, root subgroup factorization is intimately related to factorization of Toeplitz determinants.

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