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On the tensor system of a semisimple Lie algebra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Timothy Murphy
Affiliation:
University of Essex

Abstract

From the tensorial point of view, the essential characteristic of a semisimple lie algebra A is the non-singularity of the Killing form, since this enables one to construct a system of Cartesian tensors over A. That system is the subject of this paper.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1972

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