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Using multiplicity one for imaginary roots gives the wrong affine denominator
Statement refuted
Replacing every imaginary-root multiplicity by one preserves the affine denominator.
A counterexample is untwisted affine type , where the true normalized product has a different coefficient at from the modified product.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: Affine , with .
Kac Moody denominator product with root multiplicities defines the normalized formal product using actual multiplicities.
Roots of an untwisted affine Lie algebra gives, in untwisted affine from loop , each nonzero as imaginary with root space of dimension two; all other roots have nonzero finite-root part and are real of multiplicity one.
Counterexample
By F2 the factor for in F1 is ; the proposed replacement is . A positive root below that is imaginary must equal : in F2's computed loop list the other positive roots have nonzero finite-root part and squared length two, hence are real, while positive imaginary roots are . Terms from cannot contribute at degree because their simple coordinates exceed those of .
Let be the common product of all factors relevant at or below other than the factor. Its constant coefficient is one by F1. If is its coefficient at , the true product has coefficient and the modified product has coefficient . Cross products with the nonconstant part of the factor require the zero coefficient of , already one; no other terms can reach this degree. Thus the modified coefficient exceeds the true one by exactly one, refuting the claim. The zero-degree coefficients agree, so that agreement cannot detect the error. Rank-one imaginary multiplicity one would give no such witness; the rank-two diagonal space in F2 is essential. The calculation is finite and choice-free.
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Sources
- Kleshchev, Sections 6.1-6.3 and 10.3 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Perrin, Sections 4.2 and 12.3 (standard reference, not scraped)