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Affine Weyl group is a coroot lattice semidirect product
Statement
The untwisted affine Weyl group has a normal translation subgroup indexed by the finite coroot lattice . Every element is uniquely with , , and With the normalized invariant form used in the loop realization and on the finite Cartan, the translation action on the full dual Cartan is Thus . The convention sometimes written denotes the same group, with its second factor normal.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The full untwisted affine algebra in its normalized loop convention.
Its Cartan and simple generators agree with the GCM realization by Loop and affine GCM presentations are isomorphic.
The affine root and coroot are , , with long and , by The affine simple root alpha zero is delta minus the highest root.
Reflections act by , by Simple reflections and the kac moody weyl group.
The normalized invariant form is fixed by Residue two cocycle on a loop algebra; finite roots, coroots, its positive definite real restriction and simple generation are Finite semisimple Cartan, root and string structure.
The finite Weyl group is finite, preserves the root/coroot lattices, and is generated by its simple reflections by Finite Weyl positive roots and simple reflections.
Proof
Extend the in the statement to vanish on . The displayed operators fix and preserve . In a composition the additional cross term in the coefficient is , so symmetry gives . Thus and is the inverse. If , applying it to every level-zero functional gives for all finite , hence .
In the Euclidean coroot system let be the real span of . It is nonzero and -invariant. For a coroot not orthogonal to , some has ; the reflection formula makes a nonzero multiple of , so . Thus every coroot belongs to either or . If both classes occurred, finite roots would likewise split into two nonempty orthogonal classes. The corresponding root spaces and coroot spans would form commuting ideals: a mixed root sum lies in neither span, so is not a root; mixed Cartan actions vanish; opposite-root brackets lie in their corresponding coroot spans. This contradicts simplicity of . Consequently is the entire coroot space.
Finite fixes , preserves and satisfies . Substitution proves . Since and , substitution also gives Here by F5. Hence and all its finite Weyl conjugates belong to .
Let be the integer span of . For any coroot , step 1.2 supplies an orbit coroot with . It has minimal coroot length because is long. If proportional, reducedness gives . Otherwise integrality and strict Cauchy–Schwarz give The integer has absolute value one. Since is Weyl invariant, . Every coroot belongs to , so . Steps 1.1 and 2.1 therefore put every , , in .
The products form a group by steps 1.1 and 2.1 and lattice preservation. They contain all finite simple reflections and , so form all of . Let vanish on and have . Finite fixes it, whereas . Thus forces , hence . Trivial intersection gives uniqueness by comparing two products. Zero translation, identity finite factor and rank one are included. Every lattice expression is a finite sum and no AC is used.
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Sources
- Kleshchev, Lectures on Infinite Dimensional Lie Algebras, Section 6.4 (standard reference, not scraped)
- Perrin, Introduction to Kac-Moody Groups and Lie Algebras, Theorem 12.2.19 and Lemma 12.2.20 (standard reference, not scraped)