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    mathematics, a Lie algebra is semisimple if it is a direct sum of simple Lie algebras. (A simple Lie algebra is a non-abelian Lie algebra without any non-zero...
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    field of representation theory, a Lie algebra representation or representation of a Lie algebra is a way of writing a Lie algebra as a set of matrices...
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    the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras is one of the crowning achievements of the theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras. The theory was...
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  • of Lie algebras and hence also to representations of algebraic and Lie groups. In this context, a weight of a representation is a generalization of the...
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    Lie groups whose Lie algebras are semisimple Lie algebras. The Lie algebra of a simple Lie group is a simple Lie algebra. This is a one-to-one correspondence...
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    algebras is one of the major achievements of Wilhelm Killing and Élie Cartan. A direct sum of simple Lie algebras is called a semisimple Lie algebra....
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    article gives a table of some common Lie groups and their associated Lie algebras. The following are noted: the topological properties of the group (dimension;...
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    notions of complexification and real form have a natural description in the language of algebraic geometry. Just as complex semisimple Lie algebras are classified...
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    finite-dimensional representations of Lie algebras Weights in the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras Hall 2015 Section 1.2 Bröcker & tom...
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    theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras. For the topics in the representation theory of Lie groups and Lie algebras, see Glossary of representation theory...
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    develop the theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras by viewing them as the complexifications of Lie algebras of compact groups; the existence of an Ad-invariant...
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    articles on representation theory of a connected compact Lie group and the parallel theory classifying representations of semisimple Lie algebras. Let T be...
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    In mathematics, the representation theory of the Poincaré group is an example of the representation theory of a Lie group that is neither a compact group...
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    Root system (category Lie algebras)
    classification and representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras. Since Lie groups (and some analogues such as algebraic groups) and Lie algebras have become...
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    Lie algebras are analogs of solvable groups. Any nilpotent Lie algebra is a fortiori solvable but the converse is not true. The solvable Lie algebras...
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    associative algebras and Lie algebras. The most prominent of these (and historically the first) is the representation theory of groups, in which elements of a group...
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    and Lie algebras. According to this connection, the different quantum states of an elementary particle give rise to an irreducible representation of the...
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    Kac–Moody algebras and generalized Kac–Moody algebras also have subalgebras that play the same role as the Cartan subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras (over...
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    many properties with semisimple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields – having essentially the same representation theory, for instance – the splitting...
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    nilpotent Lie algebras are analogs of nilpotent groups. The nilpotent Lie algebras are precisely those that can be obtained from abelian Lie algebras, by successive...
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  • representation of semisimple Lie algebras that plays such a fundamental role in present-day Lie theory. And although Lie envisioned applications of his...
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    points of view; see the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras and the Weyl character formula. The functor that takes an associative algebra A over...
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  • Cartan matrix (category Lie algebras)
    modular representation theory, and more generally in the theory of representations of finite-dimensional associative algebras A that are not semisimple, a...
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    semisimple Lie algebras, Cartan's theory of symmetric spaces, and Hermann Weyl's description of representations of compact and semisimple Lie groups using...
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    Weyl group (category Lie algebras)
    particular the theory of Lie algebras, the Weyl group (named after Hermann Weyl) of a root system Φ is a subgroup of the isometry group of that root system...
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    The representation theory of SU(3) is well-understood. Descriptions of these representations, from the point of view of its complexified Lie algebra s l...
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    representation (or adjoint action) of a Lie group G is a way of representing the elements of the group as linear transformations of the group's Lie algebra...
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    of the existence of mass and spin (normally explained in Wigner's classification of relativistic mechanics) in terms of the representation theory of the...
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  • representations of Lie algebras Representation theory of a connected compact Lie group Weights in the representation theory of semisimple Lie algebras Dixmier...
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    the simple algebraic groups are classified by Dynkin diagrams, as in the theory of compact Lie groups or complex semisimple Lie algebras. Reductive groups...
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