A uniform bound on the nilpotency degree of certain subalgebras of Kac-Moody algebras

Abstract: Let

m a t h f r a k g

be a Kac-Moody algebra and

m a t h f r a k b_{1}, m a t h f r a k b_{2}

be Borel subalgebras of opposite signs. The intersection

m a t h f r a k b = m a t h f r a k b_{1} c a p m a t h f r a k b_{2}

is a finite-dimensional solvable subalgebra of

m a t h f r a k g

. We show that the nilpotency degree of

[m a t h f r a k b, m a t h f r a k b]

is bounded from above by a constant depending only on

m a t h f r a k g

. This confirms a conjecture of Y. Billig and A. Pianzola cite{BilligPia95}.

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