MATH 5143 (Spring 2022)
Overview:
- Welcome to the homepage for MATH 5143: Introduction to Lie Algebras!
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- For information about prerequisites, grades, and course content, consult the syllabus.
Lectures:
Textbooks:
Schedule:
- Lecture 1
: basic definitions, solvable and nilpotent Lie algebras (1.1–3.1)
- Lecture 2 : Engel's and Lie's theorems, Jordan decomposition (3.1–4.2)
- Lecture 3 : Cartan criterion, Killing form, semisimplicity (4.3–5.3)
- Lecture 4 : modules, Casimir element, Weyl's theorem, abstract Jordan decomposition (6.1–6.4)
- Lecture 5 : special linear representations, root space decompositions (7.1–8.2)
- Lecture 6 : properties of root spaces, abstract root systems (8.3–9.4)
- Lecture 7 : properties of simple roots and the Weyl group (10.1–10.4)
- Lecture 8 : classification of irreducible root sytems, isomorphism and conjugacy theorems (11.1–16.5)
- Lecture 9 : universal enveloping algebras (17.1–17.5)
- Lecture 10 : Serre's theorem, weight spaces, standard cyclic modules (18.1–20.2)
- Lecture 11 : finite-dimensional modules, multiplicity formulas, formal characters (20.3–22.5)
- Lecture 12 : Harish-Chandra's theorem, more formal characters, Kostant's formula (23.1–24.2)
- Lecture 13 : Weyl character formula, Chevalley bases (24.3–25.5)
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