Curtis-Tits groups of simply-laced type

DOI10.1016/J.JCTA.2016.08.009zbMATH Open1351.05232arXiv1511.06885OpenAlexW2964018977MaRDI QIDQ346434FDOQ346434

Authors: Rieuwert J. Blok, Corneliu G. Hoffman 

Publication date: 29 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The classification of Curtis-Tits amalgams with {connected}, triangle free, simply-laced diagram over a field of size at least $4$ was completed in~cite{BloHof2014b}. Orientable amalgams are those arising from applying the Curtis-Tits theorem to groups of Kac-Moody type, and indeed, their universal completions are central extensions of those groups of Kac-Moody type. The paper~cite{BloHof2014a} exhibits concrete (matrix) groups as completions for all Curtis-Tits amalgams with diagram $widetilde{A}_{n-1}$. For non-orientable amalgams these groups are symmetry groups of certain unitary forms over a ring of skew Laurent polynomials. In the present paper we generalize this to all amalgams arising from the classification above and, under some additional conditions, exhibit their universal completions as central extensions of twisted groups of Kac-Moody type.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06885

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zbMATH Keywords

amalgamCurtis-Tits groupsgroups of Kac-Moody typeMoufangoppositetwin-building

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Free products of groups, free products with amalgamation, Higman-Neumann-Neumann extensions, and generalizations (20E06) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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