Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
Let be a Kac-Moody-Borcherds algebra on a field
associated to a symetrizable matrix and with Cartan subalgebra
. Let
be an ad
-invariant subalgebra such that the restriction to
of the standard bilinear form is nondegenerate. We show that the root system Ψ of
is a subsystem according to [Ba] of
. Moreover, if a subsystem Ω satisfies some conditions (i.e. Ω is “réduit et presque-clos”) of Ψ, we construct inside of
a Kac-Moody-Borcherds algebra with root system Ω.
Let k be a subfield of . We prove similar results in the case of an action of a finite group of k-semi-automorphisms. In particular, we obtain a generalization to the Kac-Moody case of a result by Borel and Tits.
Let be an almost-k-split form of a Kac-Moody algebra. We construct a Kac-Moody k-algebra with root system similar to the system of
(save on some multiples of certain roots).