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- Pablo <pablo-escobar@riseup.net>
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Added a remark on tensor products
Source code for my notes on representations of semisimple Lie algebras and Olivier Mathieu's classification of simple weight modules
Added a remark on tensor products
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diff --git a/sections/introduction.tex b/sections/introduction.tex @@ -789,6 +789,16 @@ then follows\dots finite-dimensional repesentations to finitely generated modules. \end{proposition} +\begin{note} + We should point out that the monoidal structure of + \(\mathfrak{g}\text{-}\mathbf{Mod}\) is \emph{not} the same as that of + \(\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})\text{-}\mathbf{Mod}\). In other words, \(V + \otimes W\) is not the same thing as \(V \otimes_{\mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})} + W\) and hence the equivalence \(\mathfrak{g}\text{-}\mathbf{Mod} \isoto + \mathcal{U}(\mathfrak{g})\text{-}\mathbf{Mod}\) does not preserve tensor + products. +\end{note} + Representations are the subjects of \emph{representation theory}, a field dedicated to understanding a Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\) via its \(\mathfrak{g}\)-modules. The fundamental problem of representation theory is a