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In this paper we discuss two items which in one way or another originated from conversations with Hermann Flaschka and his students. The first is an application of the Toda lattice to the question of whether there exists a complex Lie group (with certain properties) associated to an indefinite type Kac-Moody Lie algebra. The second concerns a new example of the Verblunsky correspondence.
An identity of Szego, and a volume calculation, heuristically suggest a simple expression for the distribution of Verblunsky coefficients with respect to the (normalized) exponential of the $S^1$ trace of the Gaussian free field. This heuristic expression is not quite correct. A proof of the correct formula has been found by Chhaibi and Najnudel. Their proof uses random matrix theory and overcomes many difficult technical issues. In addition to presenting the Szego perspective, we show that the Chhaibi and Najnudel theorem implies a family of combinatorial identities (for moments of measures) which are of intrinsic interest.