The exterior algebra and ``spin of an orthogonal g-module

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Abstract: A well-known result of Kostant gives a description of the G-module structure for the exterior algebra of Lie algebra frakg. We give a generalization of this result for the isotropy representations of symmetric spaces. If frakg=frakg0+frakg1 is a Z_2-grading of a simple Lie algebra, we explicitly describe a frakg0-module Spin0(frakg1) such that the exterior algebra of frakg1 is the tensor square of this module times some power of 2. Although Spin0(frakg1) is usually reducible, we show that a Casimir element for frakg0 always acts scalarly on it. We also a give classification of all orthogonal representations of simple algebraic groups having an exterior algebra of skew-invariants.









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