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Regular subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras

Rings and Algebras 2009-11-13 v1 Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We classify regular subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras in terms of their root systems. In the process, we establish that a root system of a subalgebra is always an intersection of the root system of the algebra with a sublattice of its root lattice. We also discuss applications to investigations of regular subalgebras of hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras and conformally invariant subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras.

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@article{arxiv.0807.3986,
  title  = {Regular subalgebras of affine Kac-Moody algebras},
  author = {Anna Felikson and Alexander Retakh and Pavel Tumarkin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3986},
  year   = {2009}
}

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To appear in Journal of Physics A