Affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras in the language of SGA3

Jun Morita; Arturo Pianzola; Taiki Shibata

doi:10.1016/j.jpaa.2023.107331

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Affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras in the language of SGA3

Jun Morita·Arturo Pianzola·Taiki Shibata

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In infinite-dimensional Lie theory, the affine Kac-Moody Lie algebras and groups play a distinguished role due to their many applications to various areas of mathematics and physics. Underlying these infinite-dimensional objects there are closely related group schemes and Lie algebras of finite type over Laurent polynomial rings. The language of SGA3 is perfectly suited to describe such objects. The purpose of this short article is to provide a natural description of the affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras using this language.

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Jun Morita, Arturo Pianzola, Taiki Shibata. 2021-07-27. Affine Kac-Moody groups and Lie algebras in the language of SGA3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2023.107331

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