Minimal faithful representations of reductive Lie algebras

DOI10.1007/S00013-007-2378-XMaRDI QIDQ2480685zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dietrich Burde, Wolfgang Alexander Moens

Publication date 3 April 2008

Published in Archiv der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0703657

zbMATH Keywords

linear representationreductive

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

Abstract: We prove an explicit formula for the invariant $mu(Lg)$ for finite-dimensional semisimple, and reductive Lie algebras $Lg$ over $C$. Here $mu(Lg)$ is the minimal dimension of a faithful linear representation of $Lg$. The result can be used to study Dynkin's classification of maximal reductive subalgebras of semisimple Lie algebras.

Review text

Finding the minimal dimension, \(\mu(L)\), of a faithful linear representation of a finite dimensional Lie algebra is, in general, a difficult problem. For complex simple \(L\), the results are known and listed in a book of \textit{R. Carter} [Lie algebras of finite and affine type, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2005; Zbl 1110.17001)]. The present paper finds \(\mu(L)\) when \(L\) is a complex reductive Lie algebra. The authors show that \(\mu(L)\) is the sum of the \(\mu(H)\)'s where \(H\) runs over the simple ideals of \(L\) and the center of \(L\). Since \(\mu(A)\) is known when \(A\) is abelian, the complex reductive case is completely shown. The abelian case was shown by the first author [Arch. Math. 70, 118--127 (1998; Zbl 0904.17006)].

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