Lie Groups and Lie Algebras Mini-course

李群与李代数短课

Notice

Lecture videos are available on our bilibili channel.

Speakers

Schedule

Lectures

2023/7/24
Wu, Zongsheng
Basic Definitions and Examples about Lie Algebras
Notes
2023/7/26
Wu, Zongsheng
Engel Theorem, Lie Theorem and Jordan-Chevalley Decomposition
Notes Part 1
Notes Part 2
2023/8/2,2023/8/4
Liu, Zhilin
Smooth Manifolds, and Topological Groups
TBD
Liu, Zhilin and Tan, Tianrui
Definitions and Examples about Lie Groups, Lie Derivatives and the Exponential Maps
TBD
Wang, Xinrui
Covering Maps of Lie Groups
TBD
Lin, Wangyang
The de Rham Theory of Lie Groups
All the notes will be published when all my talks are finished.
TBD
Lin, Wangyang
Cohomology of Lie Algebras I: Introduction
TBD
Lin, Wangyang
Cohomology of Lie Algebras II: Whitehead Lemmas and Weyl Theorem
TBD
Zhang, Xiping
Cartan Subalgebras and the Root Systems
TBD
Zhang, Xiping
Finite-Dimensional Representations of $\mathfrak{sl}(2)$
TBD
Wu, Tong
Weyl Groups
TBD
Wu, Tong
The Fundamental dominant weight and the highest weight

Bonus

TBD
Wang, Xinrui
Classification of Admissible Representations of $GL(2,\mathbb{R})$
TBD
Li, Yining
Coxeter Groups

References

  1. Introduction to Lie Algebras and Representation Theory, by J.E. Humphreys
  2. Lie Groups Beyond an Introduction, by Anthony W. Knapp
  3. Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Representations: An Elementary Introduction, by Brian Hall