Exceptional Lie Algebras

ISBN-13: 9780824713263 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 136 str.

N. Jacobson; Nathan Jacobson; Jacobson N

Opis

This volume presents a set of models for the exceptional Lie algebras over algebraically closed fieldsof characteristic O and over the field of real numbers

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Jordan algebras of symmetric bilinear forms 2. Cayley algebras 3. Exceptional Jordan algebras 4. Automorphisms of 5. Exceptional Lie algebras of type D4 6. Roots of and 6 7. Lie algebras of type E6 8. Some applications of Galois cohomology 9. Lie algebras of type E7 10. Tits' second construction 11. Calculation of the Killing forms 12. Models of the real forms

O autorze

N. Jacobson