Spin covers of maximal compact subgroups of Kac-Moody groups and spin-extended Weyl groups

DOI10.1515/JGTH-2016-0034zbMATH Open1390.20048arXiv1502.07294OpenAlexW2963237646MaRDI QIDQ524629FDOQ524629

Authors: David Ghatei, Max Horn, Sebastian Weiß, Ralf Köhl (né Gramlich) 

Publication date: 3 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Group Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let G be a split real Kac-Moody group of arbitrary type and let K be its maximal compact subgroup, i.e. the subgroup of elements fixed by a Cartan-Chevalley involution of G. We construct non-trivial spin covers of K, thus confirming a conjecture by Damour and Hillmann (arXiv:0906.3116). For irreducible simply laced diagrams and for all spherical diagrams these spin covers are two-fold central extensions of K. For more complicated irreducible diagrams these spin covers are central extensions by a finite 2-group of possibly larger cardinality. Our construction is amalgam-theoretic and makes use of the generalized spin representations of maximal compact subalgebras of split real Kac-Moody algebras studied in arXiv:1110.5576. Our spin covers contain what we call spin-extended Weyl groups which admit a presentation by generators and relations obtained from the one for extended Weyl groups by relaxing the condition on the generators so that only their eighth powers are required to be trivial.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07294

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zbMATH Keywords

buildingClifford algebraCartan matrixWeyl groupDynkin diagramKac-Moody groupamalgam groupCartan-Chevalley involutiongeneralised spin representationspin coveruniversal enveloping group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Hyperbolic groups and nonpositively curved groups (20F67) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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