{ "id": "0710.5588", "version": "v3", "published": "2007-10-30T09:08:54.000Z", "updated": "2010-01-25T10:23:55.000Z", "title": "Hall algebras associated to triangulated categories, II: almost associativity", "authors": [ "Fan Xu" ], "comment": "15 pages", "categories": [ "math.RT", "math.RA" ], "abstract": "By using the approach in \\cite{XX2006} to Hall algebras arising in homologically finite triangulated categories, we find an `almost' associative multiplication structure for indecomposable objects in a 2-periodic triangulated category. As an application, we give a new proof of the theorem of Peng and Xiao in \\cite{PX2000} which provides a way of realizing symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras and elliptic Lie algebras via 2-periodic triangulated categories.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v3", "updated": "2010-01-25T10:23:55.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "16G20", "17B67" ], "keywords": [ "triangulated category", "hall algebras", "associativity", "elliptic lie algebras", "homologically finite triangulated categories" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 15, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0710.5588X" } } }