Semisimple Lie Theory seminar

Thursday, May 29, 2014 4:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Michael Baker, Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Waterloo

“Representations of sl(3;C)”

We introduce the Lie algebra sl(3;C) of traceless complex matrices, and begin our classification of its representations. With some slight generalizations, we can apply the same strategy we used for sl(2;C), although the analysis is now more involved.

MC 4062