Representations of simple Lie groups

DOI10.1016/0034-4877(93)90027-CMaRDI QIDQ1322732zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors L. J. Boya

Publication date 5 May 1994

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0034-4877(93)90027-c

zbMATH Keywords

Casimir invariantscompact Lie groupcomplex representationsquaternionic representationstwisted product of spheres

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Representation theory for linear algebraic groups (20G05) Representations of Lie and linear algebraic groups over global fields and adèle rings (22E55) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10) Homology and cohomology of Lie groups (57T10)

Review text

It is known that the real homology \(H_ * (G)\) of a compact Lie group \(G\) is a Cartesian product of certain odd-dimensional spheres. In the author's interpretation, the group itself can be viewed as a ``twisted product of the same spheres: for instance, \(SU(3) \sim S^ 3 \times S^ 5\) is interpreted as the existence of the principal bundle \(SU(2) \to SU (3) \to S^ 5\). The following statements are shown to be equivalent: (1) \(G\) admits complex representations, (2) the center of \(G\) contains elements of order \(>2\), (2) \(G\) has odd Casimir invariants (invariant monomials of odd order in the enveloping algebra), (4) for the representation in terms of spheres \(S^ k\), there is at least one exponent of the form \(k = 4n + 1\). Any one of these conditions implies that \(G\) has outer automorphisms (but not vice versa). Quaternionic representations exist iff the center of \(G\) is nontrivial and consists of order-two elements only.

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