Normalizers of maximal tori and real forms of Lie groups

Publication date 30 November 2018

Abstract: Given a complex connected reductive Lie group

G

with a maximal torus

H s u b s e t G

, Tits defined an extension

W_{G}^{T}

of the corresponding Weyl group

W_{G}

. The extended group is supplied with an embedding into the normalizer

N_{G} (H)

, such that

W_{G}^{T}

together with

H

generate

N_{G} (H)

. In this paper we propose an interpretation of the Tits classical construction in terms of the maximal split real form

G (m a t h b b R) s u b s e t G

, which leads to the simple topological description of

W_{G}^{T}

. We also consider a variation of the Tits construction associated with compact real form

U

of

G

. In this case we define an extension

W_{G}^{U}

of the Weyl group

W_{G}

, naturally embedded into the group extension

w i d e t i l d e U := U t i m e s G a m m a

of the compact real form

U

by the Galois group

G a m m a = m G a l (m a t h b b C / m a t h b b R)

. Generators of

W_{G}^{U}

are squared to identity as in the Weyl group

W_{G}

. However, the non-trivial action of

G a m m a

by outer automorphisms requires

W_{G}^{U}

to be a non-trivial extension of

W_{G}

. This gives a specific presentation of the maximal torus normalizer of the group extension

w i d e t i l d e U

. Finally, we describe explicitly the adjoint action of

W_{G}^{T}

and

W_{G}^{U}

on the Lie algebra of

G

.

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