Event

Talk
Infinite dimensional symmetric spaces of Kac-Moody type
1 Jul 2006, 9:00 – 9:50

Quotients of a Kac-Moody group by the fixed point set of an involution are in some sense the closest generalization of Riemannian symmetric spaces to infinite dimensions. These spaces carry a natural metric of Lorentz type but otherwise share many properties with their finite dimensional counter parts.