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Curtis-Tits groups generalizing Kac-Moody groups of type $\widetilde{A}_n$

Group Theory 2015-10-08 v3 Mathematical Physics Combinatorics math.MP

Abstract

In a previous paper we define a Curtis-Tits group as a certain generalization of a Kac-Moody group. We distinguish between orientable and non-orientable Curtis-Tits groups and identify all orientable Curtis-Tits groups as Kac-Moody groups associated to twin-buildings. In the present paper we construct all orientable and non-orientable Curtis-Tits groups with diagram A~n\widetilde{A}_n over a field F{\mathbb F}. The resulting groups are quite interesting in their own right. The orientable ones are related to Drinfel'd' s construction of vector bundles over a non-commutative projective line and to the classical groups over cyclic algebras. The non-orientable ones are related to q-CCR algebras in physics and have symplectic, orthogonal and unitary groups as quotients.

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@article{arxiv.0911.0824,
  title  = {Curtis-Tits groups generalizing Kac-Moody groups of type $\widetilde{A}_n$},
  author = {Rieuwert J. Blok and Corneliu Hoffman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0824},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Key Words: Curtis-Tits groups, Kac-Moody groups, twin-building, amalgam, opposite, Moufang foundations