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On 2-spherical Kac-Moody groups and their central extensions

  • Pierre-Emmanuel Caprace EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: September 19, 2007
Forum Mathematicum
From the journal Volume 19 Issue 5

Abstract

We provide a new presentation for simply connected Kac-Moody groups of 2-spherical type and for their universal central extensions. Under mild local restrictions, these results extend to the more general class of groups of Kac-Moody type (i.e. groups endowed with a root datum).


(Communicated by Karl-Hermann Neeb)


Received: 2005-06-28
Revised: 2005-09-20
Published Online: 2007-09-19
Published in Print: 2007-09-19

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