Kac-moody groups over fields with trivial K2

DOI10.1080/00927879108824218MaRDI QIDQ4713441zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jun Morita

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Communications in Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00927879108824218

zbMATH Keywords

generalized Cartan matrixhyperbolic typeKac-Moody groupSteinberg group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Symbols, presentations and stability of (K_2) (19C20) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65)

Review text

Let \(X\) be the Dynkin diagram associated with a generalized Cartan matrix \(A\), and \(g(X)\) the Kac-Moody algebra over \(\mathbb{C}\) of type \(X\). Using a system of Chevalley basis and a suitable integrable representation, one can construct a universal Kac-Moody group \(G(X,F)\) over a field \(F\) of type \(X\). Also one can define the associated Steinberg group \(St(X,F)\), by generators and relations as usual. Then the group \(K_ 2(X,F)\) is defined by the canonical exact sequence: \(1\to K_ 2(X,F)\to St(X,F)\to G(X,F)\to 1\). The author gives a characterization of the generalized Cartan matrix with the property that the associated \(K_ 2\) is trivial for every field \(F\). He also classifies the generalized Cartan matrix of hyperbolic type with such a property.

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