Constructing simply laced Lie algebras from extremal elements

DOI10.2140/ANT.2008.2.551MaRDI QIDQ1005877zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jan Draisma, Jos in 't panhuis

Publication date 16 March 2009

Published in Algebra \& Number Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0707.2927

zbMATH Keywords

graphLie algebraDynkin diagramaffine spaceextremal element

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Identities, free Lie (super)algebras (17B01) Affine spaces (automorphisms, embeddings, exotic structures, cancellation problem) (14R10) Lie (super)algebras associated with other structures (associative, Jordan, etc.) (17B60) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

Abstract: For any finite graph Gamma and any field K of characteristic unequal to 2 we construct an algebraic variety X over K whose K-points parameterise K-Lie algebras generated by extremal elements, corresponding to the vertices of the graph, with prescribed commutation relations, corresponding to the non-edges. After that, we study the case where Gamma is a connected, simply laced Dynkin diagram of finite or affine type. We prove that X is then an affine space, and that all points in an open dense subset of X parameterise Lie algebras isomorphic to a single fixed Lie algebra. If Gamma is of affine type, then this fixed Lie algebra is the split finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra corresponding to the associated finite-type Dynkin diagram. This gives a new construction of these Lie algebras, in which they come together with interesting degenerations, corresponding to points outside the open dense subset. Our results may prove useful for recognising these Lie algebras.

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