Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:30 am
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10:30 am
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Ehsaan Hossain, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo
“Simple Lie Algebras and Dynkin Diagrams”
We’ll see how to construct the Dynkin diagram for a simple Lie algebra. Two Lie algebras are isomorphic if and only if their Dynkin diagrams are, so classifying the Dynkin diagrams is the main ingredient for the classification theorem.