Abelian ideals of a Borel subalgebra and subsets of the Dynkin diagram

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Abstract: Let g be a simple Lie algebra and Ab(g) the set of Abelian ideals of a Borel subalgebra of g. In this note, an interesting connection between Ab(g) and the subsets of the Dynkin diagram of g is discussed. We notice that the number of abelian ideals with k generators equals the number of subsets of the Dynkin diagram with k connected components. For g of type An or Cn, we provide a combinatorial explanation of this coincidence by constructing a suitable bijection. We also construct another general bijection between Ab(g) and the subsets of the Dynkin diagram, which is based on the theory developed by Peterson and Kostant.









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