Graphs associated with nilpotent Lie algebras of maximal rank
Author(s) -
Eduardo Diáz,
Rafael Fernández-Mateos,
D. Fernández-Ternero,
Juan Núñez Valdés
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
revista matemática iberoamericana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.569
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 2235-0616
pISSN - 0213-2230
DOI - 10.4171/rmi/349
Subject(s) - nilpotent , mathematics , rank (graph theory) , pure mathematics , lie algebra , combinatorics , lie group
In this paper, we use the graphs as a tool to study nilpotent Lie algebras. It implies to set up a link between graph theory and Lie theory. To do this, it is already known that every nilpotent Lie algebra of maximal rank is associated with a generalized Cartan matrix $A$ and it is isomorphic to a quotient of the positive part $\mathfrak{n}_+$ of the Kac-Moody algebra $\mathfrak{g}(A)$. Then, if $A$ is affine, we can associate $\mathfrak{n}_+$ with a directed graph (from now on, we use the term digraph) and we can also associate a subgraph of this digraph with every isomorphism class of nilpotent Lie algebras of maximal rank and of type $A$. Finally, we show an algorithm which obtains these subgraphs and also groups them in isomorphism classes.
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