English

Vanishing cycles and Cartan eigenvectors

Group Theory 2016-08-19 v4

Abstract

Using the vanishing cycles of simple singularities, we study the eigenvectors of Cartan matrices of finite root systems, and of q-deformations of these matrices.

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@article{arxiv.1509.05591,
  title  = {Vanishing cycles and Cartan eigenvectors},
  author = {Laura Brillon and Revaz Ramazashvili and Vadim Schechtman and Alexander Varchenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.05591},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

27 pages; a physical section describing an experiment related to the PF vector of E8 is added

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