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Integral forms of Kac-Moody groups and Eisenstein series in low dimensional supergravity theories
Kac-Moody groups over have been conjectured to occur as
symmetry groups of supergravities in dimensions less than 3, and their integer
forms are conjecturally U-duality groups. Mathematical
descriptions of , due to Tits, are functorial and not amenable
to computation or applications. We construct Kac-Moody groups over
and using an analog of Chevalley's constructions in finite
dimensions and Garland's constructions in the affine case. We extend a
construction of Eisenstein series on finite dimensional semisimple algebraic
groups using representation theory, which appeared in the context of
superstring theory, to general Kac-Moody groups. This coincides with a
generalization of Garland's Eisenstein series on affine Kac-Moody groups to
general Kac-Moody groups and includes Eisenstein series on and
. For finite dimensional groups, Eisenstein series encode the quantum
corrections in string theory and supergravity theories. Their Kac-Moody analogs
will likely also play an important part in string theory, though their roles
are not yet understood
Abstract simplicity of complete Kac-Moody groups over finite fields
Let be a Kac-Moody group over a finite field corresponding to a
generalized Cartan matrix , as constructed by Tits. It is known that
admits the structure of a BN-pair, and acts on its corresponding building. We
study the complete Kac-Moody group which is defined to be the closure
of 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 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 of
rank at least four. Our proof uses Tits' simplicity theorem for groups with a
BN-pair and methods from the theory of pro- groups.Comment: Final version. The statement and the proof of Theorem 5.2 have been
corrected. The main result (Theorem 1.1) now holds under slightly stronger
restriction
Dimensions of Imaginary Root Spaces of Hyperbolic Kac--Moody Algebras
We discuss the known results and methods for determining root multiplicities
for hyperbolic Kac--Moody algebras
Fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of SL2 in positive characteristic
In this work, we construct fundamental domains for congruence subgroups of
and . Our method uses Gekeler's description of
the fundamental domains on the Bruhat- Tits tree in terms of
cosets of subgroups. We compute the fundamental domains for a number of
congruence subgroups explicitly as graphs of groups using the computer algebra
system Magma
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