Abstract

It is known that each positive definite quasi-Cartan matrix A is Z-equivalent to a Cartan matrix AΔ called Dynkin type of A, the matrix AΔ is uniquely determined up to conjugation by permutation matrices. However, in most of the cases, it is not possible to determine the Dynkin type of a given connected quasi-Cartan matrix by simple inspection. In this paper, we give a graph theoretical characterization of non-symmetric connected quasi-Cartan matrices. For this purpose, a special assemblage of blocks is introduced. This result complements the approach proposed by Barot (1999, 2001), for An, Dn and Em with m=6,7,8.

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