Laplacian spectrum for the nilpotent Kac-Moody Lie algebras
arXiv:0808.0890
Abstract
We prove that the maximal nilpotent subalgebra of a Kac-Moody Lie algebra has an (essentially unique) Euclidean metric with respect to which the Laplace operator in the chain complex is scalar on each component of a given degree. Moreover, both the Lie algebra structure and the metric are uniquely determined by this property.
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