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On the characters of affine Kac–Moody groups

  • Stephen Slebarski (a1)
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Let G be an affine Kac–Moody group over ℂ, and V∞ an integrable simple quotient of a Verma module for g. Let Gmin be the subgroup of G generated by the maximal algebraic torus T, and the real root subgroups.

It is shown that (the least positive imaginary root) gives a character δ∈Hom(G, ℂ*) such that the pointwise character χ∞ of V∞ may be defined on Gmin ∩ G>1.

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