Cartan Involutions and Cartan Decompositions of a Semi-Simple Lie Algebra

Authors

Ian M. Anderson, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-7-2015

Abstract

In this worksheet we shall review the basic definitions and properties of Cartan involutions and Cartan decompositions and illustrate these using the DifferentialGeometry software package for Lie algebras.

Recommended Citation

Anderson, Ian M., "Cartan Involutions and Cartan Decompositions of a Semi-Simple Lie Algebra" (2015). Tutorials on... in 1 hour or less. Paper 5.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/dg_tutorial/5