Benkart, Georgia; Kang, Seok-Jin; Misra, Kailash C. Indefinite Kac-Moody algebras of special linear type. (English) Zbl 0857.17020 Pac. J. Math. 170, No. 2, 379-404 (1995). The authors continue their investigations into the root multiplicities of certain classes of indefinite Kac-Moody algebras. [For the earlier papers in the series, see Adv. Math. 97, No. 2, 154-190 (1993; Zbl 0854.17026) and ibid. 105, 76-100 (1994; Zbl 0824.17025)]. In this paper, the authors study a class of algebras obtained from the special linear Lie algebra \(A_n\). This class includes the rank 2 hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras and the algebras \(HA_1^{(1)}\), \(HA_2^{(2)}\), \(HG_2^{(1)}\) and \(HD_4^{(3)}\) previously studied by Kang and by Feingold and Frenkel. Refining the techniques of the earlier papers, the authors give three root multiplicity formulas. The first involves Littlewood-Richardson coefficients and Kostka numbers, but is applicable only to roots of small degree. The second and third are recursive and closed-form formulas giving the multiplicities of arbitrary roots as polynomials of Kostka numbers. The paper is very clearly written; the authors motivate and explain their results, and they provide a wealth of examples illustrating their various computational techniques. Reviewer: D.Melville (Canton) Cited in 6 Documents MSC: 17B67 Kac-Moody (super)algebras; extended affine Lie algebras; toroidal Lie algebras 17B10 Representations of Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, algebraic theory (weights) Keywords:root multiplicities; indefinite Kac-Moody algebras; Littlewood-Richardson coefficients; Kostka numbers Citations:Zbl 0854.17026; Zbl 0824.17025 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{G. Benkart} et al., Pac. J. Math. 170, No. 2, 379--404 (1995; Zbl 0857.17020) Full Text: DOI