Quantum symmetric Kac–Moody pairs

The present paper develops a general theory of quantum group analogs of symmetric pairs for involutive automorphism of the second kind of symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebras. The resulting quantum symmetric pairs are right coideal subalgebras of quantized enveloping algebras. They give rise to triangular decompositions, including a quantum analog of the Iwasawa decomposition, and they can be written explicitly in terms of generators and relations. Moreover, their centers and their specializations are determined. The constructions follow G. Letzter's theory of quantum symmetric pairs for semisimple Lie algebras. The main additional ingredient is the classification of involutive automorphisms of the second kind of symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebras due to Kac and Wang. The resulting theory comprises various classes of examples which have previously appeared in the literature, such as q-Onsager algebras and the twisted q-Yangians introduced by Molev, Ragoucy, and Sorba.     

Quantizations of Kac–Moody algebras

We analyze the extent to which a quantum universal enveloping algebra of a Kac–Moody algebra g$\mathfrak{g}$ is defined by multidegrees of its defining relations. To this end, we consider a class of character Hopf algebras defined by the same number of defining relations of the same degrees as the Kac–Moody algebra g$\mathfrak{g}$. We demonstrate that if the generalized Cartan matrix A$A$ of g$\mathfrak{g}$ is connected then the algebraic structure, up to a finite number of exceptional cases, is defined by just one “continuous” parameter q$q$ related to a symmetrization of A$A$, and one “discrete” parameter m$\mathfrak{m}$ related to the modular symmetrizations of A$A$. The Hopf algebra structure is defined by n(n−1)/2$n(n-1)/2$ additional “continuous” parameters. We also consider the exceptional cases for Cartan matrices of finite or affine types in more detail, establishing the number of exceptional parameter values in terms of the Fibonacci sequence.     

Supercategorification of quantum Kac–Moody algebras

We show that the quiver Hecke superalgebras and their cyclotomic quotients provide a supercategorification of quantum Kac–Moody algebras and their integrable highest weight modules.     

Quiver varieties and Frenkel–Kac construction

An affine Lie algebra acts on cohomology groups of quiver varieties of affine type. A Heisenberg algebra acts on cohomology groups of Hilbert schemes of points on a minimal resolution of a Kleinian singularity. We show that in the case of type A the former is obtained by Frenkel–Kac construction from the latter.     

Spectral asymptotics for Kac–Murdock–Szegő matrices

Szeg?’s First Limit Theorem provides the limiting statistical distribution of the eigenvalues of large Toeplitz matrices. Szeg?’s Second (or Strong) Limit Theorem for Toeplitz matrices gives a second order correction to the First Limit Theorem, and allows one to calculate asymptotics for the determinants of large Toeplitz matrices. In this paper we survey results extending the First and Second Limit Theorems to Kac–Murdock–Szeg? (KMS) matrices. These are matrices whose entries along the diagonals are not necessarily constants, but modeled by functions. We clarify and extend some existing results, and explain some apparently contradictory results in the literature.     

Asymptotic Properties of Generalized Feynman–Kac Functionals

Let ( ) be a regular Dirichlet form on L2(X;m) and {Px}x X the Hunt process generated by ( ). Let be a signed 'smooth measure' associated with ( ) and At the continuous additive functional corresponding to the measure . Under some conditions on ( ) and , we shall prove that

Discrete approximations for complex Kac–Moody groups

We construct a map from the classifying space of a discrete Kac–Moody group over the algebraic closure of the field with p elements to the classifying space of a complex topological Kac–Moody group and prove that it is a homology equivalence at primes q different from p. This generalizes a classical result of Quillen, Friedlander and Mislin for Lie groups. As an application, we construct unstable Adams operations for general Kac–Moody groups compatible with the Frobenius homomorphism. Our results rely on new integral homology decompositions for certain infinite dimensional unipotent subgroups of discrete Kac–Moody groups.     

On the Topology of Kac–Moody groups

We study the topology of spaces related to Kac–Moody groups. Given a Kac–Moody group over $\mathbb C $ , let $\text {K}$ denote the unitary form with maximal torus ${{\mathrm{T}}}$ having normalizer ${{\mathrm{N}}}({{\mathrm{T}}})$ . In this article we study the cohomology of the flag manifold $\text {K}/{{{\mathrm{T}}}}$ as a module over the Nil-Hecke algebra, as well as the (co)homology of $\text {K}$ as a Hopf algebra. In particular, if $\mathbb F $ has positive characteristic, we show that $\text {H}_*(\text {K},\mathbb F )$ is a finitely generated algebra, and that $\text {H}^*(\text {K},\mathbb F )$ is finitely generated only if $\text {K}$ is a compact Lie group . We also study the stable homotopy type of the classifying space $\text {BK}$ and show that it is a retract of the classifying space $\text {BN(T)}$ of ${{\mathrm{N}}}({{\mathrm{T}}})$ . We illustrate our results with the example of rank two Kac–Moody groups.     

Hyperbolic subalgebras of hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras

We investigate regular hyperbolic subalgebras of hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras via their Weyl groups. We classify all subgroup relations between Weyl groups of hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebras, and show that for every pair of a group and subgroup there exists at least one corresponding pair of algebra and subalgebra. We find all types of regular hyperbolic subalgebras for a given hyperbolic Kac–Moody algebra, and present a finite algorithm classifying all embeddings.     

Weyl Modules Associated to Kac–Moody Lie Algebras

Local Weyl modules were originally defined for affine Lie algebras by Chari and Pressley in [5 Chari, V., Pressley, A. (2001). Weyl modules for classical and quantum affine algebras. Represent. Theory 5:191–223 (electronic).[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]]. In this paper we extend the notion of local Weyl modules for a Lie algebra 𝔤 ?A, where 𝔤 is any Kac–Moody algebra and A is any finitely generated commutative associative algebra with unit over ?, and prove a tensor product decomposition theorem which generalizes result in [2 Chari, V., Fourier, G., Khandai, T. (2010). A categorical approach to Weyl modules. Transform. Groups 15(3):517–549.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar], 5 Chari, V., Pressley, A. (2001). Weyl modules for classical and quantum affine algebras. Represent. Theory 5:191–223 (electronic).[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]].     

On the Toda and Kac–van Moerbeke hierarchies

We provide a comprehensive treatment of the single and double commutation method as a tool for constructing soliton solutions of the Toda and Kac–van Moerbeke hierarchy on arbitrary background. In addition, we present a novel construction based on the single commutation method. As an illustration we compute the N-soliton solution of the Toda and Kac–van Moerbeke hierarchy. Received November 20, 1997; in final form July 7, 1998     

The Kac–Bernstein functional equation on Abelian groups

Aequationes mathematicae - We consider the Kac–Bernstein functional equation $$\begin{aligned} f(x+y)g(x-y)=f(x)f(y)g(x)g(-y), \quad x, y\in X, \end{aligned}$$ on an arbitrary Abelian group...     

Commutative post-Lie algebra structures on Kac–Moody algebras

We determine commutative post-Lie algebra structures on some infinite-dimensional Lie algebras. We show that all commutative post-Lie algebra structures on loop algebras are trivial. This extends the results for finite-dimensional perfect Lie algebras. Furthermore, we show that all commutative post-Lie algebra structures on affine Kac–Moody Lie algebras are “almost trivial”.     

Open subgroups of locally compact Kac–Moody groups

Let $G$ be a complete Kac–Moody group over a finite field. It is known that $G$ possesses a BN-pair structure, all of whose parabolic subgroups are open in $G$ . We show that, conversely, every open subgroup of $G$ is contained with finite index in some parabolic subgroup; moreover there are only finitely many such parabolic subgroups. The proof uses some new results on parabolic closures in Coxeter groups. In particular, we give conditions ensuring that the parabolic closure of the product of two elements in a Coxeter group contains the respective parabolic closures of those elements.     

A Result on Ext Over Kac–Moody Algebras

We prove the following result for a not necessarily symmetrizable Kac–Moody algebra: Let x,y W with x y, and let P⁺. If n=l(x)-l(y), then Ext _C() ⁿ (M(x·),L(y·))=1.