Lie Algebras: Theory and Algorithms
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Lie Algebras: Theory and Algorithms

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
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Lie Algebras: Theory and Algorithms

About this book

The aim of the present work is two-fold. Firstly it aims at a giving an account of many existing algorithms for calculating with finite-dimensional Lie algebras. Secondly, the book provides an introduction into the theory of finite-dimensional Lie algebras. These two subject areas are intimately related. First of all, the algorithmic perspective often invites a different approach to the theoretical material than the one taken in various other monographs (e.g., [42], [48], [77], [86]). Indeed, on various occasions the knowledge of certain algorithms allows us to obtain a straightforward proof of theoretical results (we mention the proof of the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem and the proof of Iwasawa's theorem as examples). Also proofs that contain algorithmic constructions are explicitly formulated as algorithms (an example is the isomorphism theorem for semisimple Lie algebras that constructs an isomorphism in case it exists). Secondly, the algorithms can be used to arrive at a better understanding of the theory. Performing the algorithms in concrete examples, calculating with the concepts involved, really brings the theory of life.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright page
  5. Preface
  6. Chapter 1: Basic constructions
  7. Chapter 2: On nilpotency and solvability
  8. Chapter 3: Cartan subalgebras
  9. Chapter 4: Lie algebras with non-degenerate Killing form
  10. Chapter 5: The classification of the simple Lie algebras
  11. Chapter 6: Universal enveloping algebras
  12. Chapter 7: Finitely presented Lie algebras
  13. Chapter 8: Representations of semisimple Lie algebras
  14. Appendix A On associative algebras
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index of Symbols
  17. Index of Terminology
  18. Index of Algorithms