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The quotient Lie-algebra bracket is well-defined
Statement
Let . The rule
is independent of representatives, is bilinear and alternating, and satisfies the Jacobi identity on the quotient vector space .
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A Lie algebra over and an ideal .
An ideal is a linear subspace closed under brackets with arbitrary elements of (Lie subalgebras, ideals, and center).
The additive cosets form the quotient module and its vector-space operations are independent of representatives (Quotient module with scalar multiplication on additive cosets, The quotient action is well defined and makes a module).
Proof
If and with , bilinearity gives . Every term belongs to by [L1], so .
Bilinearity of the quotient bracket follows by choosing representatives, using bilinearity in , and using [L2] for coset addition and scalar multiplication; step 1.1 makes the result independent of those choices.
For every , one has , so the descended bracket is alternating.
For three cosets, their cyclic Jacobi sum is the coset of , which is zero in and hence is the zero coset. Thus Jacobi descends.
Therefore the displayed rule has all Lie identities. For it is the original bracket, and for it is the unique bracket on the zero space; no choice of representatives is made in either case or in the argument above.
Depends on
Used by
- Quotient Lie algebras Definition
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Sources
- Kirillov, An Introduction to Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, §5.3, before Lemma 5.17 (standard reference, not scraped)