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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Fixed some typos
Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules
Fixed some typos
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diff --git a/sections/complete-reducibility.tex b/sections/complete-reducibility.tex @@ -21,14 +21,15 @@ non-isomorphic representations, so that the 1-dimensional representations of \(K^n\) are parameterized by points in \(K^n\). This goes to show that classifying the representations of Abelian algebras is -not that interesting of a problem. Instead, we focus on the the -finite-dimensional representations of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra -\(\mathfrak{g}\) over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic -\(0\). But why are the representations semisimple algebras simpler -- or -perhaps \emph{semisimpler} -- to understand than those of any old Lie algebra? -We will get back to this question in a moment, but for now we simply note that, -when solving a classification problem, it is often profitable to break down our -structure is smaller pieces. This leads us to the following definitions. +not that interesting of a problem. Instead, we focus on a less trivial, yet +reasonably well behaved case: the finite-dimensional representations of a +finite-dimensional semisimple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) over an +algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(0\). But why are the +representations of semisimple algebras simpler -- or perhaps \emph{semisimpler} +-- to understand than those of any old Lie algebra? We will get back to this +question in a moment, but for now we simply note that, when solving a +classification problem, it is often profitable to break down our structure is +smaller pieces. This leads us to the following definitions. \begin{definition} A representation of \(\mathfrak{g}\) is called \emph{indecomposable} if it is