
Notes on Coxeter Transformations and the McKay Correspondence
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One of the beautiful results in the representation theory of the finite groups is McKay's theorem on a correspondence between representations of the binary polyhedral group of SU(2) and vertices of an extended simply-laced Dynkin diagram.
The Coxeter transformation is the main tool in the proof of the McKay correspondence, and is closely interrelated with the Cartan matrix and Poincare series. The Coxeter functors constructed by Bernstein, Gelfand and Ponomarev plays a distinguished role in the representation theory of quivers.
On these pages, the ideas and formulas due to J. N. Bernstein, I. M. Gelfand and V. A. Ponomarev, H.S.M. Coxeter, V. Dlab and C.M. Ringel, V. Kac, J. McKay, T.A. Springer, B. Kostant, P. Slodowy, R. Steinberg, W. Ebeling and several other authors, as well as the author and his colleagues from Subbotin's seminar, are presented in detail. Several proofs seem to be new.
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The three historical aspects of the Coxeter transformation | p. 1 |
| A brief review of this work | p. 3 |
| The spectrum and the Jordan form | p. 6 |
| The Jordan form and the golden pair of matrices | p. 6 |
| An explicit construction of eigenvectors | p. 7 |
| Study of the Coxeter transformation and the Cartan matrix | p. 8 |
| Monotonicity of the dominant eigenvalue | p. 8 |
| Splitting formulas and the diagrams T[subscript p,q,r] | p. 9 |
| Splitting formulas for the characteristic polynomial | p. 9 |
| An explicit calculation of characteristic polynomials | p. 10 |
| Formulas for the diagrams T[subscript 2,3,r], T[subscript 3,3,r], T[subscript 2,4,r] | p. 12 |
| Coxeter transformations and the McKay correspondence | p. 13 |
| The generalized R. Steinberg theorem | p. 13 |
| The Kostant generating functions and W. Ebeling's theorem | p. 14 |
| The affine Coxeter transformation | p. 16 |
| The R. Steinberg trick | p. 16 |
| The defect and the Dlab-Ringel formula | p. 18 |
| The regular representations of quivers | p. 19 |
| The regular and non-regular representations of quivers | p. 19 |
| The necessary and sufficient regularity conditions | p. 20 |
| Preliminaries | p. 23 |
| The Cartan matrix and the Tits form | p. 23 |
| The generalized and symmetrizable Cartan matrix | p. 23 |
| The Tits form and diagrams T[subscript p,q,r] | p. 25 |
| The simply-laced Dynkin diagrams | p. 27 |
| The multiply-laced Dynkin diagrams. Possible weighted edges | p. 28 |
| The multiply-laced Dynkin diagrams. A branch point | p. 30 |
| The extended Dynkin diagrams. Two different notation | p. 36 |
| Three sets of Tits forms | p. 37 |
| The hyperbolic Dynkin diagrams and hyperbolic Cartan matrices | p. 38 |
| Representations of quivers | p. 38 |
| The real and imaginary roots | p. 38 |
| A category of representations of quivers and the P. Gabriel theorem | p. 41 |
| Finite-type, tame and wild quivers | p. 42 |
| The V. Kac theorem on the possible dimension vectors | p. 43 |
| The quadratic Tits form and vector-dimensions of representations | p. 44 |
| Orientations and the associated Coxeter transformations | p. 45 |
| The Poincare series | p. 46 |
| The graded algebras, symmetric algebras, algebras of invariants | p. 46 |
| The invariants of finite groups generated by reflections | p. 49 |
| The Jordan normal form of the Coxeter transformation | p. 51 |
| The Cartan matrix and the Coxeter transformation | p. 51 |
| A bicolored partition and a bipartite graph | p. 51 |
| Conjugacy of Coxeter transformations | p. 52 |
| The Cartan matrix and the bicolored Coxeter transformation | p. 52 |
| The dual graphs and dual forms | p. 54 |
| The eigenvalues of the Cartan matrix and the Coxeter transformation | p. 54 |
| An application of the Perron-Frobenius theorem | p. 56 |
| The pair of matrices D D[superscript t] and D[superscript t] D (resp. D F and F D) | p. 56 |
| The Perron-Frobenius theorem applied to D D[superscript t] and D[superscript t] D (resp. D F and F D) | p. 59 |
| The basis of eigenvectors and a theorem on the Jordan form | p. 61 |
| An explicit construction of the eigenvectors | p. 61 |
| Monotonicity of the dominant eigenvalue | p. 63 |
| A theorem on the Jordan form | p. 65 |
| Eigenvalues, splitting formulas and diagrams T[subscript p,q,r] | p. 67 |
| The eigenvalues of the affine Coxeter transformation | p. 67 |
| Bibliographical notes on the spectrum of the Coxeter transformation | p. 71 |
| Splitting and gluing formulas for the characteristic polynomial | p. 74 |
| Formulas of the characteristic polynomials for the diagrams T[subscript p,q,r] | p. 80 |
| The diagrams T[subscript 2,3,r] | p. 81 |
| The diagrams T[subscript 3,3,r] | p. 84 |
| The diagrams T[subscript 2,4,r] | p. 86 |
| Convergence of the sequence of eigenvalues | p. 90 |
| R. Steinberg's theorem, B. Kostant's construction | p. 95 |
| R. Steinberg's theorem and a (p,q,r) mystery | p. 95 |
| The characteristic polynomials for the Dynkin diagrams | p. 99 |
| A generalization of R. Steinberg's theorem | p. 102 |
| The folded Dynkin diagrams and branch points | p. 102 |
| R. Steinberg's theorem for the multiply-laced case | p. 103 |
| The Kostant generating function and Poincare series | p. 105 |
| The generating function | p. 105 |
| The characters and the McKay operator | p. 109 |
| The Poincare series and W. Ebeling's theorem | p. 113 |
| The orbit structure of the Coxeter transformation | p. 116 |
| The Kostant generating functions and polynomials z(t)[subscript i] | p. 116 |
| One more observation of McKay | p. 121 |
| The affine Coxeter transformation | p. 129 |
| The Weyl Group and the affine Weyl group | p. 129 |
| The semidirect product | p. 129 |
| Two representations of the affine Weyl group | p. 130 |
| The translation subgroup | p. 133 |
| The affine Coxeter transformation | p. 136 |
| R. Steinberg's theorem again | p. 137 |
| The element of the maximal length in the Weyl group | p. 138 |
| The highest root and the branch point | p. 140 |
| The orbit of the highest root. Examples | p. 143 |
| The linear part of the affine Coxeter transformation | p. 145 |
| Two generalizations of the branch point | p. 147 |
| The defect | p. 148 |
| The affine Coxeter transformation and defect | p. 148 |
| The necessary regularity conditions | p. 150 |
| The Dlab-Ringel formula | p. 152 |
| The Dlab-Ringel defect and the [Omega]-defect coincide | p. 153 |
| The McKay correspondence and the Slodowy correspondence | p. 155 |
| Finite subgroups of SU(2) and SO(3, R) | p. 155 |
| The generators and relations in polyhedral groups | p. 156 |
| The Kleinian singularities and the Du Val resolution | p. 158 |
| The McKay correspondence | p. 160 |
| The Slodowy generalization of the McKay correspondence | p. 161 |
| The Slodowy correspondence | p. 162 |
| The binary tetrahedral group and the binary octahedral group | p. 164 |
| Representations of the binary octahedral and tetrahedral groups | p. 167 |
| The induced and restricted representations | p. 174 |
| The characters of the binary polyhedral groups | p. 179 |
| The cyclic groups | p. 179 |
| The binary dihedral groups | p. 179 |
| The binary icosahedral group | p. 181 |
| Regularity conditions for representations of quivers | p. 183 |
| The Coxeter functors and regularity conditions | p. 183 |
| The reflection functor F[subscript a superscript +] | p. 184 |
| The reflection functor F[subscript a superscript -] | p. 185 |
| The Coxeter functors [Phi superscript +], [Phi superscript -] | p. 186 |
| The preprojective and preinjective representations | p. 187 |
| The regularity condition | p. 187 |
| The necessary regularity conditions | p. 188 |
| Transforming elements and sufficient regularity conditions | p. 191 |
| The sufficient regularity conditions for the bicolored orientation | p. 191 |
| A theorem on transforming elements | p. 192 |
| The sufficient regularity conditions for an arbitrary orientation | p. 194 |
| The invariance of the defect | p. 195 |
| Examples of regularity conditions | p. 197 |
| The three equivalence classes of orientations of D[subscript 4] | p. 197 |
| The bicolored and central orientations of E[subscript 6] | p. 198 |
| The multiply-laced case. The two orientations of G[subscript 21] and G[subscript 22] = G[subscript 21 superscript V] | p. 199 |
| The case of indefinite B. The oriented star *[subscript n+1] | p. 200 |
| Miscellanea | p. 203 |
| The triangle groups and Hurwitz groups | p. 203 |
| The algebraic integers | p. 204 |
| The Perron-Frobenius Theorem | p. 206 |
| The Schwartz inequality | p. 207 |
| The complex projective line and stereographic projection | p. 208 |
| The prime spectrum, the coordinate ring, the orbit space | p. 210 |
| Hilbert's Nullstellensatz (Theorem of zeros) | p. 210 |
| The prime spectrum | p. 212 |
| The coordinate ring | p. 213 |
| The orbit space | p. 214 |
| Fixed and anti-fixed points of the Coxeter transformation | p. 215 |
| The Chebyshev polynomials and the McKay-Slodowy matrix | p. 215 |
| A theorem on fixed and anti-fixed points | p. 217 |
| References | p. 221 |
| Index | p. 233 |
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ISBN: 9783540773986
ISBN-10: 3540773983
Series: Springer Monographs in Mathematics
Published: 11th February 2008
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 260
Audience: College, Tertiary and University
Publisher: Springer Nature B.V.
Country of Publication: DE
Dimensions (cm): 23.5 x 15.88 x 2.54
Weight (kg): 0.5
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