Open subgroups of locally compact Kac-Moody groups.

DOI10.1007/S00209-012-1070-4MaRDI QIDQ1955716zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace, Timothée Marquis

Publication date 18 June 2013

Published in Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.4934

zbMATH Keywords

BN-pairscomplete Kac-Moody groupsCoxeter groupsfinite fieldsfinite index open subgroupsparabolic subgroups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Subgroup theorems; subgroup growth (20E07) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Kac-Moody groups (20G44) General properties and structure of locally compact groups (22D05)

Abstract: Let G be a complete Kac-Moody group over a finite field. It is known that G possesses a BN-pair structure, all of whose parabolic subgroups are open in G. We show that, conversely, every open subgroup of G is contained with finite index in some parabolic subgroup; moreover there are only finitely many such parabolic subgroups. The proof uses some new results on parabolic closures in Coxeter groups. In particular, we give conditions ensuring that the parabolic closure of the product of two elements in a Coxeter group contains the respective parabolic closures of those elements.

Review text

The main result of this paper asserts that every open subgroup of a complete Kac-Moody group over a finite field is contained, with finite index, in some parabolic subgroup, moreover, there are only finitely many such parabolic subgroups. As a corollary one gets that complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields satisfy the ascending chain condition for open subgroups. Furthermore, it also follows that for an irreducible complete Kac-Moody group \(G\) over a finite field every proper open subgroup of \(G\) is compact if and only if the Weyl group of \(G\) is of affine or of compact hyperbolic type. The proofs use some new results on parabolic closures in Coxeter groups, in particular, the authors provide conditions which guarantee that the parabolic closure of the product of two elements in a Coxeter group contains the respective parabolic closures of the original elements.

Recommendations

• Compactly Generated Subgroups and Open Subgroups of Locally Compact Groups
• Locally normal subgroups and ends of locally compact Kac-Moody groups
• Open quantum subgroups of locally compact quantum groups
• Abstract simplicity of locally compact Kac-Moody groups
• Compactifications of Locally Compact Groups and Closed Subgroups
• Open subgroups of free topological groups
• On the topology of Kac-Moody groups
• On the topology and geometry of Kac-Moody groups.
• Bounded presentations of Kac-Moody groups.
• Kac-Moody groups and completions

Cites work

• Buildings
• Buildings of spherical type and finite BN-pairs
• Buildings with isolated subspaces and relatively hyperbolic Coxeter groups.
• Conjugacy of 2-spherical subgroups of Coxeter groups and parallel walls.
• Decomposing locally compact groups into simple pieces
• Elementary proof of a theorem of Bruhat-Tits-Rousseau and of a theorem of Tits
• Every Coxeter group acts amenably on a compact space
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1736444 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1161587 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1762600 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3297198 (Why is no real title available?)
• On the root system of a coxeter group
• Rank-one isometries of buildings and quasi-morphisms of Kac-Moody groups.
• Simplicity and superrigidity of twin building lattices.
• The conjugacy problem for Coxeter groups.
• Topological groups of Kac-Moody type, right-angled twinnings and their lattices.
• Topological simplicity, commensurator super-rigidity and nonlinearities of Kac-Moody groups

Cited in

(14)

• Non-discrete simple locally compact groups
• On profinite subgroups of an algebraic group over a local field
• Around the Lie correspondence for complete Kac-Moody groups and Gabber-Kac simplicity
• Open subgroups of the automorphism group of a right-angled building
• Congruence subgroups of lattices in rank 2 Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.
• On conjugacy separability of some Coxeter groups and parabolic-preserving automorphisms.
• Locally parabolic subgroups in Coxeter groups of arbitrary ranks.
• Spin covers of maximal compact subgroups of Kac-Moody groups and spin-extended Weyl groups
• Locally normal subgroups and ends of locally compact Kac-Moody groups
• Orthogonal forms of Kac-Moody groups are acylindrically hyperbolic.
• Decomposition of locally compact coset spaces
• On the centre of Iwahori-Hecke algebras
• The space of locally elliptic subgroups of a locally compact group
• Contraction groups in complete Kac-Moody groups

This page was built for publication: Open subgroups of locally compact Kac-Moody groups.

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q1955716)