Root-space coordinates for the split odd orthogonal Lie algebra #
The standard coordinates of the split type-B module have weights 0, εᵢ, and -εᵢ.
An ambient matrix entry therefore has weight equal to its row weight minus its column weight.
This file characterizes generalized root-space membership by those entry weights. These computations
are the coordinate input for classifying the roots and matching them to the abstract type-B root
datum.
TauCeti.Algebra.Lie.Orthogonal.TypeB.Root.AllGenerators locates all five standard root-generator
families in their root spaces.
Generalized root spaces are honest simultaneous eigenspaces over a reduced ring. Over a domain, a root vector is supported exactly on entries of the requested weight. Neither statement requires characteristic zero or invertibility of two.
The diagonal-operator argument follows the existing type-D construction in
TauCeti.Algebra.Lie.Orthogonal.TypeD.Root.Space, reusing the ambient diagonal action from
TauCeti.Algebra.Lie.GeneralLinear.RootSpace.
References #
- N. Bourbaki, Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, Chapters 4--6, Plate II.
- J. E. Humphreys, Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, §§8, 12.
The coordinate weight in the split odd orthogonal module: zero in the middle, followed by
εᵢ and -εᵢ on the paired isotropic summands.
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The middle coordinate has zero weight.
The first isotropic summand has coordinate weights εᵢ.
The second isotropic summand has coordinate weights -εᵢ.
Coordinate weights evaluate as the corresponding diagonal entries.
The weight of a matrix entry is its row weight minus its column weight.
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The defining equation of a matrix-entry weight.
The middle-to-positive entry has weight -εⱼ.
The middle-to-negative entry has weight εⱼ.
The positive-to-middle entry has weight εᵢ.
The positive-to-positive entry has weight εᵢ - εⱼ.
The positive-to-negative entry has weight εᵢ + εⱼ.
The negative-to-middle entry has weight -εᵢ.
The negative-to-positive entry has weight -(εᵢ + εⱼ).
The negative-to-negative entry has weight εⱼ - εᵢ.
Matrix-entry weights evaluate as differences of diagonal entries.
Diagonal entries have zero weight.
The adjoint action of an element of the split diagonal Cartan is diagonal in the ambient matrix-unit basis.
Over a reduced ring, the root spaces for the split diagonal Cartan are honest simultaneous eigenspaces rather than merely generalized eigenspaces.
The diagonal Cartan acts on each ambient matrix entry through its signed coordinate-difference
weight. The matrix need not itself lie in the type-B subalgebra.
An entry of a generalized root vector vanishes when its weight difference from the root is regular at some element of the diagonal Cartan. No reducedness or domain hypothesis is needed.
A type-B matrix supported on entries of weight χ belongs to the χ root space.
Over a domain, a matrix in the split type-B Lie algebra belongs to the root space of χ
exactly when all entries whose signed coordinate difference is not χ vanish.