On the automorphisms of the Drinfel'd double of a Borel Lie subalgebra

Abstract: Let

m a t h f r a k g

be a complex simple Lie algebra with Borel subalgebra

m a t h f r a k b

. Consider the semidirect product

I m a t h f r a k b = m a t h f r a k b l t i m e s {m a t h f r a k b}^{*}

, where the dual

{m a t h f r a k b}^{*}

of

m a t h f r a k b

, is equipped with the coadjoint action of

m a t h f r a k b

and is considered as an abelian ideal of

I m a t h f r a k b

. We describe the automorphism group

o p e r a t o r n a m e A u t (I m a t h f r a k b)

of the Lie algebra

I m a t h f r a k b

. In particular we prove that it contains the automorphism group of the extended Dynkin diagram of

m a t h f r a k b

. In type

A_{n}

, the dihedral subgroup was recently proved to be contained in

o p e r a t o r n a m e A u t (I m a t h f r a k b)

by Dror Bar-Natan and Roland Van Der Veen in arXiv:2002.00697 (where

I m a t h f r a k b

is denoted by

I {m a t h f r a k u}_{n}

). Their construction is handmade and they ask for an explanation: this note fully answers the question.

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