Purely imaginary roots of kac-moody algebras |
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Authors: | N Sthanumoorthy A Uma Maheswari |
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Institution: | Ramanujan Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics , University of Madras , Madras, 600005, India |
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Abstract: | In this paper, we introduce a new class of imaginary roots, called purely imaginary roots and give a necessary and sufficient condition for an imaginary root to be purely imaginary,thereby giving a complete classification of those Kac-Moody algebras with the purely imaginary property, namely, all their imaginary roots are purely imaginary. We also define a new class of non-hyperbolic indefinite Kac-Moody algebras, called the extended hyperbolic kac-Moody algebras possessing the purely imaginary property. |
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Keywords: | Kac-Moody algebras and root systems |
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