TY - GEN
T1 - Pseudo-symmetric pairs for Kac-Moody algebras
AU - Regelskis, Vidas
AU - Vlaar, Bart
N1 - Funding Information:
17B37, 20F55. Key words and phrases. Kac-Moody algebras, automorphism group, symmetric pairs, restricted Weyl group. The second-named author was supported by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, grant number EP/R009465/1. 1We always work over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. Lie algebra automorphisms are always understood to fix this field pointwise.
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PY - 2022/8/31
Y1 - 2022/8/31
N2 - Lie algebra involutions and their fixed-point subalgebras give rise to symmetric spaces and real forms of complex Lie algebras, and are wellstudied in the context of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. In this paper we study a generalization. Namely, we introduce the concept of a pseudoinvolution, an automorphism which is only required to act involutively on a stable Cartan subalgebra, and the concept of a pseudo-fixed-point subalgebra, a natural substitute for the fixed-point subalgebra. In the symmetrizable KacMoody setting, we give a comprehensive discussion of pseudo-involutions of the second kind, the associated pseudo-fixed-point subalgebras, restricted root systems and Weyl groups, in terms of generalizations of Satake diagrams.
AB - Lie algebra involutions and their fixed-point subalgebras give rise to symmetric spaces and real forms of complex Lie algebras, and are wellstudied in the context of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras. In this paper we study a generalization. Namely, we introduce the concept of a pseudoinvolution, an automorphism which is only required to act involutively on a stable Cartan subalgebra, and the concept of a pseudo-fixed-point subalgebra, a natural substitute for the fixed-point subalgebra. In the symmetrizable KacMoody setting, we give a comprehensive discussion of pseudo-involutions of the second kind, the associated pseudo-fixed-point subalgebras, restricted root systems and Weyl groups, in terms of generalizations of Satake diagrams.
KW - automorphism group
KW - Kac-Moody algebras
KW - restricted Weyl group
KW - symmetric pairs
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85137998601&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.00260
U2 - 10.1090/conm/780/15690
DO - 10.1090/conm/780/15690
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85137998601
SN - 9781470465209
T3 - Contemporary Mathematics
SP - 155
EP - 203
BT - Hypergeometry, Integrability and Lie Theory - Virtual Conference Hypergeometry, Integrability and Lie Theory, 2020
A2 - Koelink, Erik
A2 - Kolb, Stefan
A2 - Reshetikhin, Nicolai
A2 - Vlaar, Bart
PB - American Mathematical Society
T2 - Virtual conference on Hypergeometry, Integrability and Lie Theory, 2020
Y2 - 7 December 2020 through 11 December 2020
ER -