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The root set is a reduced crystallographic root system
Statement
With the bilinear form induced on by the Killing form, the root set of a complex semisimple Lie algebra is a finite reduced crystallographic root system. Moreover, every root space is one-dimensional.
Facts & Assumptions
Given: A complex semisimple Lie algebra , a Cartan subalgebra , and its root set .
Proof
Orthogonality of distinct root spaces and nondegeneracy of the Killing form imply that restricts to a nondegenerate pairing . Choose with . Then Opposite root spaces bracket to the Killing-dual line gives . The scalar is nonzero: otherwise the generated three-dimensional algebra would be solvable, so its adjoint action could be triangularized, making nilpotent; but this element lies in and acts semisimply, forcing it to be zero, a contradiction. After rescaling, and form an -triple.
The subspace is a finite-dimensional module for this . Its zero-weight space is the line , so complete reducibility of -modules leaves one irreducible summand with even weights. Consequently its weight- space is one-dimensional. Since , the raising operator kills that weight- space, so it is the highest weight: no with is a root.
For roots , the root-string space is a finite-dimensional -module. Since its nonzero weight spaces are one-dimensional by step 2.1, the vector in lies in one irreducible summand. The -weight is therefore an integer, and symmetry of the weights in that summand supplies the nonzero opposite-weight space . Thus is again a root.
The roots span , since an element of annihilated by every root would commute with all of and hence be zero. On the real span of the coroots, the Killing form is positive definite: is the sum of squares of the real root eigenvalues and is positive for . Finiteness comes from the finite root decomposition; step 2.1 gives reducedness; and step 3.1 gives crystallographic integrality and reflection stability. Hence is a finite reduced crystallographic root system, and all its root spaces are one-dimensional.
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Sources
- Pavel Etingof, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras I (standard reference, not scraped)