A note on commutators in compact semisimple Lie algebras

DOI10.2140/IIG.2023.20.317MaRDI QIDQ6060080zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Linus Kramer

Publication date 2 November 2023

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.09913

zbMATH Keywords

Cartan subalgebracommutatorLie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60)

Abstract: Given two elements $A,B$ in a compact semisimple Lie algebra, we show that there is a regular element $X$ and elements $Y,Z$ with $A=[X,Y]$ and $B=[X,Z]$. In the course of the proof we show also that every linear subspace $V$ of codimension at most 2 in the Lie algebra contains a CSA.

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