K₂ of Kac-Moody groups

Abstract: Ulf Rehmann and Jun Morita, in their 1989 paper "A Matsumoto-type theorem for Kac-Moody groups", gave a presentation of

K_{2} (A, F)

for any generalised Cartan matrix

A

and field

F

. The purpose of this paper is to use this presentation to compute

K_{2} (A, F)

more explicitly in the case when

A

is hyperbolic. In particular, we shall show that these

K_{2} (A, F)

can always be expressed as a product of quotients of

K_{2} (F)

and

K_{2} (2, F)

. Along the way, we shall also prove a similar result in the case when

A

has an odd entry in each column.

Review text

Let \(A\) be a generalized Cartan matrix and \(F\) a field. Let \(St(A, F)\to G(A, F)\) be the canonical homomorphism between the Steinberg and Kac-Moody groups over \(F\) of type \(A\). The kernel of this map is denoted \(K_2(A, F)\). The aim of the present paper is to compute the group \(K_2(A, F)\) explicitly in the special case when \(A\) has hyperbolic type. Recall, that this means that \(A\) is neither finite nor affine but its every principal minor submatrix is of finite or affine type. The key ingredient in this computation is Morita-Rehmann theorem which describes \(K_2(A, F)\) as a certain quotient of abelian groups, see [\textit{J. Morita} and \textit{U. Rehmann}, Tohoku Math. J. (2) 42, No. 4, 537--560 (1990; Zbl 0701.19001)]. The paper also relies on the classification theorem for hyperbolic Cartan matrices.

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