On fundamental domains and volumes of hyperbolic Coxeter-Weyl groups

DOI10.1007/S11005-011-0540-7MaRDI QIDQ454346zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Philipp Fleig, Michael Koehn, Hermann Nicolai

Publication date 1 October 2012

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.3175

zbMATH Keywords

hyperbolic volumeKac-Moody algebraspolylogarithmWeyl groups

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polylogarithms and relations with (K)-theory (11G55) Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects) (20F55) Fuchsian groups and their generalizations (group-theoretic aspects) (20H10)

Abstract: We present a simple method for determining the shape of fundamental domains of generalized modular groups related to Weyl groups of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras. These domains are given as subsets of certain generalized upper half planes, on which the Weyl groups act via generalized modular transformations. Our construction only requires the Cartan matrix of the underlying finite-dimensional Lie algebra and the associated Coxeter labels as input information. We present a simple formula for determining the volume of these fundamental domains. This allows us to re-produce in a simple manner the known values for these volumes previously obtained by other methods.

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