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Cartan Involutions And Cartan Decompositions Of A Semi-Simple Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson Jan 2015

Cartan Involutions And Cartan Decompositions Of A Semi-Simple Lie Algebra, Ian M. Anderson

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In this worksheet we shall review the basic definitions and properties of Cartan involutions and Cartan decompositions and illustrate these using the DifferentialGeometry software package for Lie algebras.