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Note on Weight Spaces of Irreducible Linear Representations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

F. W. Lemire
F. W. Lemire*
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University of British Columbia
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Let L denote a finite dimensional, simple Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field F of characteristic zero. It is well known that every weight space of an irreducible representation (ρ, V) admitting a highest weight function is finite dimensional. In a previous paper [2], we have established the existence of a wide class of irreducible representations which admit a one-dimensional weight space but no highest weight function. In this paper we show that the weight spaces of all such representations are finite dimensional.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 1968 , pp. 399 - 403
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1968

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