Presentation of affine Kac-Moody groups over rings.

DOI10.2140/ANT.2016.10.533zbMATH Open1348.20058arXiv1409.0176OpenAlexW3104642794MaRDI QIDQ299138FDOQ299138

Authors: Daniel Allcock 

Publication date: 22 June 2016

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

Abstract: Tits has defined Steinberg groups and Kac-Moody groups for any root system and any commutative ring R. We establish a Curtis-Tits-style presentation for the Steinberg group St of any rank > 2 irreducible affine root system, for any R. Namely, St is the direct limit of the Steinberg groups coming from the 1- and 2-node subdiagrams of the Dynkin diagram. This leads to a completely explicit presentation. Using this we show that St is finitely presented if the rank is > 3 and R is finitely generated as a ring, or if the rank is 3 and R is finitely generated as a module over a subring generated by finitely many units. Similar results hold for the corresponding Kac-Moody groups when R is a Dedekind domain of arithmetic type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0176

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zbMATH Keywords

affine root systemsaffine Kac-Moody groupsCurtis-Tits presentationsSteinberg groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Generators, relations, and presentations of groups (20F05) Root systems (17B22) Steinberg groups and (K_2) (19C99) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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