Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications
Title
Curtis–Tits Groups of Simply-laced Type
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The classification of Curtis–Tits amalgams with connected, triangle free, simply-laced diagram over a field of size at least 4 was completed in [3]. Orientable amalgams are those arising from applying the Curtis–Tits theorem to groups of Kac–Moody type, and indeed, their universal completions are central extensions of those groups of Kac–Moody type. The paper [2] exhibits concrete (matrix) groups as completions for all Curtis–Tits amalgams with diagram A ˜ n − 1 . For non-orientable amalgams these groups are symmetry groups of certain unitary forms over a ring of skew Laurent polynomials. In the present paper we generalize this to all amalgams arising from the classification above and, under some additional conditions, exhibit their universal completions as central extensions of twisted groups of Kac–Moody type.
Repository Citation
Blok, Rieuwert J. and Hoffman, Corneliu G., "Curtis–Tits Groups of Simply-laced Type" (2017). Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications. 24.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/math_stat_pub/24
Publication Date
2017
Publication Title
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcta.2016.08.009
Start Page No.
1
End Page No.
32