Classification of complex simple Lie algebras via projective geometry
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Complex simple Lie algebras were classified by Cartan and Killing 100 years ago. Their proof proceeds by reducing the question to a combinatorical problem: the classification of irreducible root systems, and then performing the classification. We present a new proof of the classification via the projective geometry of homogeneous varieties. Our proof is constructive: we build a homogeneous space X ⊂ PN from a smaller space Y ⊂ Pn via a rational map Pn 99K PN defined using the ideals of the secant and tangential varieties of Y .
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Construction and classification of complex simple Lie algebras via projective geometry
We construct the complex simple Lie algebras using elementary algebraic geometry. We use our construction to obtain a new proof of the classification of complex simple Lie algebras that does not appeal to the classification of root systems.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999