lie-algebras-and-their-representations

Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules

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92005a04a1cdf2f9395e330d0eb5757ef1addf02
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7e30d20af7e86c1b01a12b090b7210626c891147
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Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Fixed a typo

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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

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Modified sections/sl2-sl3.tex 2 files changed 3 3
diff --git a/sections/sl2-sl3.tex b/sections/sl2-sl3.tex
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ around \(\lambda\).
 Our main objective is to show \(V\) is determined by this string of
 eigenvalues. To do so, we suppose without any loss in generality that
 \(\lambda\) is the right-most eigenvalue of \(h\), fix some nonzero \(v \in
-V_\lambda\) and consider the set \(\{v, f v, f^2, v, \ldots\}\).
+V_\lambda\) and consider the set \(\{v, f v, f^2 v, \ldots\}\).
 
 \begin{proposition}\label{thm:basis-of-irr-rep}
-  The set \(\{v, f v, f^2, \ldots\}\) is a basis for \(V\). In addition, the
+  The set \(\{v, f v, f^2 v, \ldots\}\) is a basis for \(V\). In addition, the
   action of \(\mathfrak{sl}_2(K)\) on \(V\) is given by the formulas
   \begin{equation}\label{eq:irr-rep-of-sl2}
     \begin{aligned}
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ V_\lambda\) and consider the set \(\{v, f v, f^2, v, \ldots\}\).
 
   The fact that \(h f^k v \in K \langle v, f v, f^2 v, \ldots \rangle\) follows
   immediately from our previous assertion that \(f^k v \in V_{\lambda - 2 k}\)
-  -- indeed, \(h f^k v = (\lambda - 2 k) f^k v \in K \langle v, f v, f^2, v,
+  -- indeed, \(h f^k v = (\lambda - 2 k) f^k v \in K \langle v, f v, f^2 v,
   \ldots \rangle\), which also goes to show one of the formulas in
   (\ref{eq:irr-rep-of-sl2}). Seeing \(e f^k v \in K \langle v, f v, f^2 v,
   \ldots \rangle\) is a bit more complex. Clearly,