Chevalley bases for elliptic extended affine Lie algebras of type A1

Abstract

We investigate Chevalley bases for extended affine Lie algebras of type $A_1$. The concept of integral structures for extended affine Lie algebras of rank greater than one has been successfully explored in recent years. However, for the rank one it has turned out that the situation becomes more delicate. In this work, we consider $A_1$-type extended affine Lie algebras of nullity 2, known as elliptic extended affine Lie algebras. These Lie algebras are build using the Tits-Kantor-Koecher (TKK) construction by applying some specific Jordan algebras: the plus algebra of a quantum torus, the Hermitian Jordan algebra of the ring of Laurent polynomials equipped with an involution, and the Jordan algebra associated with a semilattice. By examining these ingredients we determine appropriate bases for null spaces of the corresponding elliptic extended affine Lie algebra leading to the establishment of Chevalley bases for these Lie algebras.