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Minimal faithful upper-triangular matrix representations for solvable Lie algebras

Authors

CEBALLOS GONZÁLEZ, MANUEL, Nunez, J. , Tenorio, A. F.

External publication

No

Means

J. Comput. Appl. Math.

Scope

Article

Nature

Científica

JCR Quartile

SJR Quartile

JCR Impact

1.632

SJR Impact

0.938

Publication date

01/07/2017

ISI

000394067700028

Scopus Id

2-s2.0-84999791715

Abstract

The existence of matrix representations for any given finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra is a classic result on Lie Theory. In particular, such representations can be obtained by means of an isomorphic matrix Lie algebra consisting of upper-triangular square matrices. Unfortunately, there is no general information about the minimal order for the matrices involved in such representations. In this way, our main goal is to revisit, debug and implement an algorithm which provides the minimal order for matrix representations of any finite-dimensional solvable Lie algebra when inserting its law, as well as returning a matrix representative of such an algebra by using the minimal order previously computed. In order to show the applicability of this procedure, we have computed minimal representatives not only for each solvable Lie algebra with dimension less than 6, but also for some solvable Lie algebras of arbitrary dimension. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

Solvable Lie algebra; Faithful matrix representation; Minimal representation; Symbolic computation; Non-numerical algorithm

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