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$K_2$ of Kac-Moody Groups

K-Theory and Homology 2017-04-06 v2

Abstract

Ulf Rehmann and Jun Morita, in their 1989 paper "A Matsumoto-type theorem for Kac-Moody groups", gave a presentation of K2(A,F)K_2(A,F) for any generalised Cartan matrix AA and field FF. The purpose of this paper is to use this presentation to compute K2(A,F)K_2(A,F) more explicitly in the case when AA is hyperbolic. In particular, we shall show that these K2(A,F)K_2(A,F) can always be expressed as a product of quotients of K2(F)K_2(F) and K2(2,F)K_2(2,F). Along the way, we shall also prove a similar result in the case when AA has an odd entry in each column.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1607.02032,
  title  = {$K_2$ of Kac-Moody Groups},
  author = {Matthew Westaway},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02032},
  year   = {2017}
}

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25 pages

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