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arxiv: 0706.2713 · v1 · pith:F3ZWU5S6new · submitted 2007-06-19 · 🧮 math.GR

Contraction groups in complete Kac-Moody groups

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Let $G$ be an abstract Kac-Moody group over a finite field and $\bar{G}$ be the closure of the image of $G$ in the automorphism group of its positive building. We show that if the Dynkin diagram associated to $G$ is irreducible and neither of spherical nor of affine type, then the contraction groups of elements in $\bar{G}$ which are not topologically periodic are not closed. (In those groups there always exist elements which are not topologically periodic.)

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