Macdonald identities and Euclidean Lie algebras
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Abstract:
The Macdonald identities on affine root systems are placed in the context of Euclidean Lie algebras. This yields a simplified form of the identities, which is used to infer several results on the partition function of the root system of a Euclidean Lie algebra.References
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- © Copyright 1975 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 48 (1975), 43-52
- MSC: Primary 17B65; Secondary 10A20
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1975-0442048-2
- MathSciNet review: 0442048