Fundamental groups of split real Kac-Moody groups and generalized real flag manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00031-022-09719-7zbMATH Open1516.20073arXiv1905.13444OpenAlexW2947323531MaRDI QIDQ6155899FDOQ6155899

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Publication date: 7 June 2023

Published in: Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We determine the fundamental groups of symmetrizable algebraically simply connected split real Kac-Moody groups endowed with the Kac-Peterson topology. In analogy to the finite-dimensional situation, the Iwasawa decomposition $G=KA{U}_{+}$ provides a weak homotopy equivalence $KhookrightarrowG$, implying $p{i}_1(G)=p{i}_1(K)$. It thus suffices to determine $p{i}_1(K)$ which we achieve by investigating the fundamental groups of generalized flag varieties. Our results apply in all cases in which the Bruhat decomposition of the generalized flag variety is a CW decomposition $-$ in particular, we cover the complete symmetrizable situation; the result concerning the structure of $p{i}_1(K)$ more generally also holds in the non-symmetrizable two-spherical situation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.13444

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zbMATH Keywords

semisimple Kac-Moody group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Fundamental groups and their automorphisms (group-theoretic aspects) (20F34) Infinite-dimensional Lie groups and their Lie algebras: general properties (22E65) Kac-Moody groups (20G44)

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