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We obtain new examples of simple Kac-Moody groups with trivial Schur multipliers.
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This work was supported by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research of Japan (Monkasho Kakenhi) (Grant No. 26400005).
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Morita, J. Simple Kac-Moody groups with trivial Schur multipliers. Sci. China Math. 61, 311–316 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-016-9170-1
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