Kac-Moody Lie algebras, spectral sequences, and the Witt formula
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Abstract:
In this work, we develop a homological theory for the graded Lie algebras, which gives new information on the structure of the Lorentzian Kac-Moody Lie algebras. The technique of the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequences offers a uniform method of studying the higher level root multiplicities and the principally specialized affine characters of Lorentzian Kac-Moody Lie algebras.References
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- Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 339 (1993), 463-493
- MSC: Primary 17B67
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-1993-1102889-0
- MathSciNet review: 1102889