Reductive Lie Algebra

Reductive Lie Algebra

In mathematics, a Lie algebra is reductive if its adjoint representation is completely reducible, whence the name. More concretely, a Lie algebra is reductive if is a direct sum of a semisimple Lie algebra and an abelian Lie algebra: there are alternative characterizations, given below.

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