Around the Lie correspondence for complete Kac-Moody groups and Gabber-Kac simplicity

DOI10.5802/AIF.3301zbMATH Open1457.20038arXiv1509.01976OpenAlexW3099070483WikidataQ115159005 ScholiaQ115159005MaRDI QIDQ2333211FDOQ2333211

Authors: Timothée Marquis 

Publication date: 12 November 2019

Published in: Annales de l’institut Fourier (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $k$ be a field and $A$ be a generalised Cartan matrix, and let ${mathfrakG}_A(k)$ be the corresponding minimal Kac-Moody group of simply connected type over $k$. Consider the completion ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$ of ${mathfrakG}_A(k)$ introduced by O. Mathieu and G. Rousseau, and let ${mathfrakU}_A^{ma+}(k)$ denote the unipotent radical of the positive Borel subgroup of ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$. In this paper, we exhibit some functoriality dependence of the groups ${mathfrakU}_A^{ma+}(k)$ and ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$ on their Lie algebra. We also produce a large class of examples of minimal Kac-Moody groups ${mathfrakG}_A(k)$ that are not dense in their Mathieu-Rousseau completion ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$. Finally, we explain how the problematic of providing a unified theory of complete Kac-Moody groups is related to the conjecture of Gabber-Kac simplicity of ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$, stating that every normal subgroup of ${mathfrakG}_A^{pma}(k)$ that is contained in ${mathfrakU}_A^{ma+}(k)$ must be trivial. We present several motivations for the study of this conjecture, as well as several applications of our functoriality theorem, with contributions to the question of (non-)linearity of ${mathfrakU}_A^{ma+}(k)$, and to the isomorphism problem for complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields. For $k$ finite, we also make some observations on the structure of ${mathfrakU}_A^{ma+}(k)$ in the light of some important concepts from the theory of pro-$p$ groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01976

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zbMATH Keywords

isomorphism problemKac-Moody groupsLie correspondenceGabber-Kac simplicitylinearity problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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