Abstract simplicity of complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields.

DOI10.1016/J.JPAA.2008.03.023zbMATH Open1157.20018arXivmath/0612772OpenAlexW2129671680MaRDI QIDQ932284FDOQ932284

Authors: Lisa Carbone, Mikhail Ershov, William Gordon Ritter 

Publication date: 10 July 2008

Published in: Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $G$ be a Kac-Moody group over a finite field corresponding to a generalized Cartan matrix $A$, as constructed by Tits. It is known that $G$ admits the structure of a BN-pair, and acts on its corresponding building. We study the complete Kac-Moody group $hatG$ which is defined to be the closure of $G$ in the automorphism group of its building. Our main goal is to determine when complete Kac-Moody groups are abstractly simple, that is have no proper non-trivial normal subgroups. Abstract simplicity of $hatG$ was previously known to hold when A is of affine type. We extend this result to many indefinite cases, including all hyperbolic generalized Cartan matrices $A$ of rank at least four. Our proof uses Tits' simplicity theorem for groups with a BN-pair and methods from the theory of pro-$p$ groups.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0612772

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zbMATH Keywords

simple groupsKac-Moody groupscomplete groupsgeneralized Cartan matricesBN-pairs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras (17B67) Limits, profinite groups (20E18) Groups with a (BN)-pair; buildings (20E42) Discrete subgroups of Lie groups (22E40) Groups as automorphisms of other structures (22F50) Simple groups (20E32)

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