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Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras Glen Jones

Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras By Glen Jones

Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras by Glen Jones

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These short notes, already well-known in their original French edition, present the basic theory of semisimple Lie algebras over the complex numbers. The last chapter discusses the connection between Lie algebras, complex groups and compact groups.

Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras Summary

Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras by Glen Jones

These short notes, already well-known in their original French edition, present the basic theory of semisimple Lie algebras over the complex numbers. The author begins with a summary of the general properties of nilpotent, solvable, and semisimple Lie algebras. Subsequent chapters introduce Cartan subalgebras, root systems, and linear representations. The last chapter discusses the connection between Lie algebras, complex groups and compact groups. The book is intended to guide the reader towards further study.

Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras Reviews

From the reviews of the French edition:

...the book is intended for those who have an acquaintance with the basic parts of the theory, namely, with those general theorems on Lie algebras which do not depend on the notion of Cartan subalgebra. The author begins with a summary of these general theorems and then discusses in detail the structure and representation theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras. One recognizes here a skillful ordering of the material, many simplifications of classical arguments and a new theorem describing fundamental relations between canonical generators of semisimple Lie algebras. The classical theory being thus introduced in such modern form, the reader can quickly reach the essence of the theory through the present book. (Mathematical Reviews)

Table of Contents

I Nilpotent Lie Algebras and Solvable Lie Algebras.- 1. Lower Central Series.- 2. Definition of Nilpotent Lie Algebras.- 3. An Example of a Nilpotent Algebra.- 4. Engel's Theorems.- 5. Derived Series.- 6. Definition of Solvable Lie Algebras.- 7. Lie's Theorem.- 8. Cartan's Criterion.- II Semisimple Lie Algebras (General Theorems).- 1. Radical and Semisimpiicity.- 2. The Cartan-Killing Criterion.- 3. Decomposition of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- 4. Derivations of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- 5. Semisimple Elements and Nilpotent Elements.- 6. Complete Reducibility Theorem.- 7. Complex Simple Lie Algebras.- 8. The Passage from Real to Complex.- III Cartan Subalgebras.- 1. Definition of Cartan Subalgebras.- 2. Regular Elements: Rank.- 3. The Cartan Subalgebra Associated with a Regular Element.- 4. Conjugacy of Cartan Subalgebras.- 5. The Semisimple Case.- 6. Real Lie Algebras.- IV The Algebra SI2 and Its Representations.- 1. The Lie Algebra sl2.- 2. Modules, Weights, Primitive Elements.- 3. Structure of the Submodule Generated by a Primitive Element.- 4. The Modules Wm.- 5. Structure of the Finite-Dimensional g-Modules.- 6. Topological Properties of the Group SL2.- V Root Systems.- 1. Symmetries.- 2. Definition of Root Systems.- 3. First Examples.- 4. The Weyl Group.- 5. Invariant Quadratic Forms.- 6. Inverse Systems.- 7. Relative Position of Two Roots.- 8. Bases.- 9. Some Properties of Bases.- 10. Relations with the Weyl Group.- 11. The Cartan Matrix.- 12. The Coxeter Graph.- 13. Irreducible Root Systems.- 14. Classification of Connected Coxeter Graphs.- 15. Dynkin Diagrams.- 16. Construction of Irreducible Root Systems.- 17. Complex Root Systems.- VI Structure of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- 1. Decomposition of g.- 2. Proof of Theorem 2.- 3. Borei Subalgebras.- 4. Weyl Bases.- 5. Existence and Uniqueness Theorems.- 6. Chevalley's Normalization.- Appendix. Construction of Semisimple Lie Algebras by Generators and Relations.- VII Linear Representations of Semisimple Lie Algebras.- 1. Weights.- 2. Primitive Elements.- 3. Irreducible Modules with a Highest Weight.- 4. Finite-Dimensional Modules.- 5. An Application to the Weyl Group.- 6. Example: sl n+1.- 7. Characters.- 8. H. Weyl's formula.- VIII Complex Groups and Compact Groups.- 1. Cartan Subgroups.- 2. Characters.- 3. Relations with Representations.- 4. Berel Subgroups.- 5. Construction of Irreducible Representations from Boret Subgroups.- 6. Relations with Algebraic Groups.- 7. Relations with Compact Groups.

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NPB9783540678274
9783540678274
3540678271
Complex Semisimple Lie Algebras by Glen Jones
Glen Jones
Springer Monographs in Mathematics
New
Hardback
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
2000-12-12
75
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