Lie Algebras

A math professor from Harvard University, Shlomo Sternberg is offering his textbook on Lie Algebras in PDF form.

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Table of Contents for Lie Algebras Textbook

1. The Campbell Baker Hausdorff Formula

1.1 The problem

1.2 The geometric version of the CBH formula

1.3 The Maurer-Cartan equations

1.4 Proof of CBH from Maurer-Cartan

1.5 The differential of the exponential and its inverse

1.6 The averaging method

1.7 The Euler MacLaurin Formula

1.8 The universal enveloping algebra

1.8.1 Tensor product of vector spaces

1.8.2 The tensor product of two algebras

1.8.3 The tensor algebra of a vector space

1.8.4 Construction of the universal enveloping algebra

1.8.5 Extension of a Lie algebra homomorphism to its universal enveloping algebra

1.8.6 Universal enveloping algebra of a direct sum

1.8.7 Bialgebra structure

1.9 The Poincar ́e-Birkhoff-Witt Theorem

1.10 Primitives

1.11 Free Lie algebras

1.11.1 Magmas and free magmas on a set

1.11.2 The Free Lie Algebra LX

1.11.3 The free associative algebra Ass(X)

1.12 Algebraic proof of CBH and explicit formulas

1.12.1 Abstract version of CBH and its algebraic proof

1.12.2 Explicit formula for CBH

2. sl(2) and its Representations.

2.1 Low dimensional Lie algebras

2.2 sl(2) and its irreducable representations

2.3 The Casimir element

2.4 sl(2) is simple

2.5 Complete reducibility

2.6 The Weyl group

3. The classical simple algebras

3.1 Graded simplicity

3.2 sl(n+1)

3.3 The orthogonal algebras

3.4 The symplectic algebras

3.5 The root structures

3.5.1 An=sl(n+1)

3.5.2 Cn=sp(2n),n≥2

3.5.3 Dn=o(2n),n≥3

3.5.4 Bn=o(2n+1)n≥2

class=”inner-dd”3.5.5 Diagrammatic presentation

3.6 Low dimensional coincidences

3.7 Extended diagrams

4. Engel-Lie-Cartan-Weyl

4.1 Engel’s theorem

4.2 Solvable Lie algebras

4.3 Linear algebra

4.4 Cartan’s criterion

4.5 Radical

4.6 The Killing form

4.7 Complete reducibility

5. Conjugacy of Cartan subalgebras

5.1 Derivations

5.2 Cartan subalgebras

5.3 Solvable case

5.4 Toral subalgebras and Cartan subalgebras

5.5 Roots

5.6 Bases

5.7 Weyl chambers

5.8 Length

5.9 Conjugacy of Borel subalgebras

6. The simple finite dimensional algebras

6.1 Simple Lie algebras and irreducible root systems

6.2 The maximal root and the minimal root

6.3 Graphs

6.4 Perron-Frobenius

6.5 Classification of their reducible ∆

6.6 Classification of the irreducible root systems

6.7 The classification of the possible simple Lie algebras

7. Cyclic highest weight modules

7.1 Verma modules

7.2 When is dim Irr(λ)<∞?

7.3 The value of the Casimir

7.4 The Weyl character formula

7.5 The Weyl dimension formula

7.6 The Kostant multiplicity formula

7.7 Steinberg’s formula

7.8 The Freudenthal-de Vries formula

7.9 Fundamental representations

7.10 Equal rank subgroups

8. Serre’s theorem

8.1 The Serre relations

8.2 The first five relations

8.3 Proof of Serre’s theorem

8.4 The existence of the exceptional root systems

9. Clifford algebras and spin representations

9.1 Definition and basic properties

9.1.1 Definition

9.1.2 Gradation

9.1.3 ∧p as a C(p) module

9.1.4 Chevalley’s linear identification of C(p) with ∧p

9.1.5 The canonical antiautomorphism

9.1.6 Commutator by an element of p

9.1.7 Commutator by an element of ∧2p

9.2 Orthogonal action of a Lie algebra

9.2.1 Expression for ν in terms of dual bases

9.2.2 The adjoint action of a reductive Lie algebra

9.3 The spin representations

9.3.1 The even dimensional case

9.3.2 The odd dimensional case

9.3.3 Spin ad and Vρ

10. The Kostant Dirac operator

10.1 Anti symmetric trilinear forms

10.2 Jacobi and Clifford

10.3 Orthogonal extension of a Lie algebra

10.4 The value of [v2+ν(Casr)]0

10.5 Kostant’s Dirac Operator

10.6 Eigenvalues of the Dirac operator

10.7 The geometric index theorem

10.7.1 The index of equivariant Fredholm maps

10.7.2 Induced representations and Bott’s theorem

10.7.3 Landweber’s index theorem

11. The center of U(g).

11.1 The Harish-Chandra isomorphism

11.1.1 Statement

11.1.2 Example of sl(2)

11.1.3 Using Verma modules to prove that γH : Z(g) → U(h)W

11.1.4 Outline of proof of bijectivity

11.1.5 Restriction from S(g∗)g toS(h∗)W

11.1.6 From S(g)g to S(h)W

11.1.7 Completion of the proof

11.2 Chevalley’s theorem

11.2.1 Transcendence degrees

11.2.2 Symmetric polynomials

11.2.3 Fixed fields

11.2.4 Invariants of finite groups

11.2.5 The Hilbert basis theorem

11.2.6 Proof of Chevalley’s theorem

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