A Table of Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
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Type |
Radical |
Levi subalgebra |
Cartan subalgebra |
Borel subalgebra |
---|---|---|---|---|
\(\mathfrak{gl}(n)\), all matrices | scalar matrices | \(\mathfrak{sl}(n)\) | diagonal matrices \(\mathfrak{h}\) | upper triangular matrices \(\mathfrak{b}\) |
\(\mathfrak{sl}(n)\), matrices with trace \(0\) | (simple) | diagonal matrices with trace 0 | ||
\(\mathfrak{so}(n)\), skew-symmetric matrices | (semisimple) | block-diagonal … | ||
\(\mathfrak{sp}(2n)\) | (simple) | \(\operatorname{diag}(h_1,\dots,h_n,−h_1,\dots,−h_n)\) |