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

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Abstract: Let k be a field and A be a generalised Cartan matrix, and let mathfrakGA(k) be the corresponding minimal Kac-Moody group of simply connected type over k. Consider the completion mathfrakGApma(k) of mathfrakGA(k) introduced by O. Mathieu and G. Rousseau, and let mathfrakUAma+(k) denote the unipotent radical of the positive Borel subgroup of mathfrakGApma(k). In this paper, we exhibit some functoriality dependence of the groups mathfrakUAma+(k) and mathfrakGApma(k) on their Lie algebra. We also produce a large class of examples of minimal Kac-Moody groups mathfrakGA(k) that are not dense in their Mathieu-Rousseau completion mathfrakGApma(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 mathfrakGApma(k), stating that every normal subgroup of mathfrakGApma(k) that is contained in mathfrakUAma+(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 mathfrakUAma+(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 mathfrakUAma+(k) in the light of some important concepts from the theory of pro-p groups.



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