陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「Exceptional isogenies between the classical Lie groups」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

For sake of concreteness 下面会 work here over the complex numbers , although most of this discussion is valid for arbitrary algebraically closed fields (but some care needs to be taken in characteristic , as always, particularly when defining the orthogonal and symplectic groups). Then one has the following four infinite families of classical Lie groups for :

(this is the complexification of the more familiar real special orthogonal group ). (Type ) The symplectic group of linear maps preserving a non-degenerate antisymmetric form , such as the standard symplectic form

已知结果和反例

For this post I will abuse notation somewhat and identify with , with , etc., although it is more accurate to say that is a Lie group of type , etc., as there are other forms of the Lie algebras associated to over various fields. Over a non-algebraically closed field, such as , the list of Lie groups associated with a given type can in fact get quite complicated; see for instance this list . One can also view the double covers and of , (i.e. the spin groups ) as being of type

The reason for this subscripting is that each of the classical groups has rank , i.e. the dimension of any maximal connected abelian subgroup of simultaneously diagonalisable elements (also known as a Cartan subgroup ) is . For instance:

证明或构造的主线

(This same convention also underlies the notation for the exceptional simple Lie groups , which 下面会 not discuss further here.)

With two exceptions, the classical Lie groups are all simple , i.e. their Lie algebras are non-abelian and not expressible as the direct sum of smaller Lie algebras. The two exceptions are , which is abelian (isomorphic to , in fact) and thus not considered simple, and , which turns out to “essentially” split as , in the sense that the former group is double covered by the latter (and in particular, there is an isogeny from the latter to the former, and the Lie algebras are i

阅读时建议盯住的点

The adjoint action of a Cartan subgroup of a Lie group on the Lie algebra splits that algebra into weight spaces ; in the case of a simple Lie group, the associated weights are organised by a Dynkin diagram . The Dynkin diagrams for are of course well known, and can be found for instance here .

For small , some of these Dynkin diagrams are isomorphic; this is a classic instance of the tongue-in-cheek strong law of small numbers , though in this case “strong law of small diagrams” would be more appropriate. These accidental isomorphisms then give rise to the exceptional isomorphisms between Lie algebras (and thence to exceptional isogenies between Lie groups). Excluding those isomorphisms involving the exceptional Lie algebras for , these isomorphisms are

值得单独记下的条目

• (Type ) The special linear group of volume-preserving linear maps .
• (Type ) The special orthogonal group of (orientation preserving) linear maps preserving a non-degenerate symmetric form , such as the standard symmetric form (this is the complexification of the more familiar real special orthogonal group )
• (Type ) The symplectic group of linear maps preserving a non-degenerate antisymmetric form , such as the standard symplectic form
• (Type ) The special orthogonal group of (orientation preserving) linear maps preserving a non-degenerate symmetric form (such as the standard symmetric form).
• (Type ) In , one Cartan subgroup is the diagonal matrices in , which has dimension .
• (Type ) In , all Cartan subgroups are isomorphic to , which has dimension .
• (Type ) In , all Cartan subgroups are isomorphic to , which has dimension .
• (Type ) in , all Cartan subgroups are isomorphic to , which has dimension .

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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