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Existence of Weight Space Decompositions for Irreducible Representations of Simple Lie Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

F. W. Lemire*
Affiliation:
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
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Let L denote a finite-dimensional simple Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic zero. It is well known that every finite-dimension 1, irreducible representation of L admits a weight space decomposition; moreover every irreducible representation of L having at least one weight space admits a weight space decomposition.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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