Finite presentability of Kac-Moody groups over finite fields
Abstract
Let be a Kac-Moody group functor in the sense of Tits, with associated Coxeter system . For any field , the group is finitely generated iff is finite. We are interested in the question when is finitely presented. If is 2-spherical, it is well known that this is "almost always" the case. It is conjectured that is never finitely presented if is not 2-spherical (which means that there exist with ), which so far (to the best of our knowledge) has only been proved for the type , and maybe also, though we don't know a reference for this, in the case where for all . In this paper, we show that is not finitely presented for a significantly larger class of Coxeter systems which are not 2-spherical, giving much stronger evidence that the conjecture is true in general. Important tools of the proof are the twin BN-pair and the corresponding twin building associated to .
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@article{arxiv.1912.05611,
title = {Finite presentability of Kac-Moody groups over finite fields},
author = {Peter Abramenko and Zachary Gates},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.05611},
year = {2019}
}
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14 pages, 2 figures