Lie Algebra
For the special case of a Lie algebra with a Cartan subalgebra, given an ordering of, the Borel subalgebra is the direct sum of and the weight spaces of with positive weight. A Lie subalgebra of containing a Borel subalgebra is called a parabolic Lie algebra.
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