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

DOI10.1007/S00031-022-09719-7MaRDI QIDQ6155899zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 7 June 2023

Published in Transformation Groups (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

semisimple Kac-Moody group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

Let \(\Pi\) be an irreducible Dynkin diagram such that the Bruhat decomposition of \(G(\Pi)\) provides a CW decomposition. Here, \(G(\Pi)\) is the algebraically simply-connected split real semisimple Kac-Moody group associated to an irreducible diagram. Also denote as Spin\((\Pi,\kappa)\), where \(\kappa\) denotes a so-called admissible colouring of the vertices of \(\Pi\), is defined as the canonical universal enveloping group of a Spin\((2)\)-amalgam \(A(\Pi, \mathrm{Spin}(2))\) In the paper under review, the fundamental groups \(\pi_1(G(\Pi))\) and \(\pi_1(\mathrm{Spin}(\Pi,\kappa)\) are caculated.

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