Invariant symmetric bilinear forms for reflection groups

摘要

In this paper we describe a connection between Vinberg's criterion for the existence of an invariant symmetric bilinear form for a geometric representation of a Coxeter groups and other criteria which are formulated in terms of conjugation invariant sets of reflections generating a given group. Similar methods lead to the result that every non-symmetrizable Kac--Moody Lie algebra contains a non-symmetrizable subalgebra of rank 3. Finally we explain how the results for symmetric bilinear forms can also be obtained for skew-symmetric forms.