On 2-spherical Kac-Moody groups and their central extensions

DOI10.1515/FORUM.2007.031zbMath1140.20028MaRDI QIDQ5426544

Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace

Publication date: 13 November 2007

Published in: Forum Mathematicum (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

presentations; Coxeter systems; buildings; Kac-Moody groups; Steinberg groups; universal central extensions; Moufang property; twin root data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

20G15: Linear algebraic groups over arbitrary fields

20F05: Generators, relations, and presentations of groups

20F55: Reflection and Coxeter groups (group-theoretic aspects)

22E65: Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties

51E24: Buildings and the geometry of diagrams

20E22: Extensions, wreath products, and other compositions of groups

20E42: Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings

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Lattices in complete rank 2 Kac-Moody groups., Golod-Shafarevich groups with property \((T)\) and Kac-Moody groups.

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• Uniqueness and presentation of Kac-Moody groups over fields
• The Curtis-Tits-presentation.