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- 2ed2d069d6502293269ad3d3da472eb63240217f
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- 596ee686d4cac448aa91da1180be68ab24e77f02
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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Added the definition of the subrepresentation generated by an element
Also fixed a typo
Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules
Added the definition of the subrepresentation generated by an element
Also fixed a typo
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
Status | File Name | N° Changes | Insertions | Deletions |
Modified | sections/introduction.tex | 9 | 8 | 1 |
Modified | sections/sl2-sl3.tex | 1 | 0 | 1 |
diff --git a/sections/introduction.tex b/sections/introduction.tex @@ -883,7 +883,14 @@ To that end, we define\dots \begin{example} Given a Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) and representations \(V\) and \(W\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\), the spaces \(V \wedge W\) and \(V \odot W\) are both - representations of \(G\): they are quotients of \(V \otimes W\). + representations of \(\mathfrak{g}\): they are quotients of \(V \otimes W\). +\end{example} + +\begin{example} + Given a Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), a \(\mathfrak{g}\)-module \(V\) and \(v + \in V\), the subspace \(\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g}) \cdot v = \{ u v : u \in + \mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g}) \}\) is a subrepresentation of \(V\), which we call + \emph{the subrepresentation generated by \(v\)}. \end{example} It is also interesting to consider the relationship between representations of
diff --git a/sections/sl2-sl3.tex b/sections/sl2-sl3.tex @@ -1099,7 +1099,6 @@ simpler than that. Hence the highest weight of \(V \oplus W\) is \(\lambda\) -- with highest weight vectors given by the sum of highest weight vectors of \(V\) and \(W\). - % TODO: Define the subrepresentation generated by a vector beforehand Fix some \(v \in V_\lambda\) and \(w \in W_\lambda\) and consider the subrepresentation \(U = \mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{sl}_3(K)) \cdot v + w \subset V \oplus W\) generated by \(v + w\). Since \(v + w\) is a highest weight of \(V