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Edited the example of the Lie algebra of an algebraic group
Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules
Edited the example of the Lie algebra of an algebraic group
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diff --git a/sections/introduction.tex b/sections/introduction.tex @@ -65,15 +65,20 @@ T_1 G\). In particular, \(\mathfrak{g}\) is finite-dimensional. \end{example} +% TODOO: Is it worth discussing the non-affine case? If you can't even get an +% equivalence of categories why should we introduce so much complexity? \begin{example} - Let \(G\) be an algebraic \(K\)-group and \(K[G]\) denote the ring of regular - functions \(G \to K\). We call a derivation \(D : K[G] \to K[G]\) left + Let \(G\) be an algebraic \(K\)-group and \(K[G]\) denote the coordinate ring + of \(G\) -- i.e. \(K[G] = \mathcal{O}(G)\) is the ring of global sections of + the structure sheaf of \(G\). We call a derivation \(D : K[G] \to K[G]\) left invariant if \(D(g \cdot f) = g \cdot D f\) for all \(g \in G\) and \(f \in - K[G]\) -- where the action of \(G\) in \(K[G]\) given by \((g \cdot f)(h) = - f(g^{-1} h)\). The commutator of left invariant derivations is invariant too, - so the space \(\operatorname{Lie}(G)\) of invariant derivations in \(K[G]\) - has the structure of a Lie algebra over \(K\) with brackets given by the - commutator of derivations. Again, \(\operatorname{Lie}(G) \cong T_1 G\) is + K[G]\) -- where the action of \(g \in G\) in \(K[G]\) given by the morphism + of sheafs \(\ell_{g^{-1}}^\sharp : \mathcal{O} \to \mathcal{O}\). The + commutator of left invariant derivations is invariant too, so the space + \(\operatorname{Lie}(G) = \operatorname{Der}(G)^G\) of invariant derivations + in \(K[G]\) has the structure of a Lie algebra over \(K\) with brackets given + by the commutator of derivations. Again, \(\operatorname{Lie}(G)\) is + isomorphic to the Zariski tangent space \(T_1 G\), which is finite-dimensional. \end{example}