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| Oct 8, 2009 at 6:24 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | Well, so, a glance at the paper shows that Harish-Chandra considers only the case when the characteristic is 0, but emphasizes that his proof is entirely algebraic. Iwasawa's paper isn't available online via MathSciNet. | |
| Oct 8, 2009 at 6:07 | comment | added | Theo Johnson-Freyd | Ah, great. Except it wasn't Ado who proved it, but Iwasawa (1948) and Harish-Chandra (1949), according to Wikipedia. We skipped these theorems in Mark's class, which is why I don't know them. I wonder why Mark didn't mention them... | |
| Oct 8, 2009 at 5:14 | comment | added | Anton Geraschenko | same link as Ben posted: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ado%27s_theorem | |
| Oct 7, 2009 at 21:32 | comment | added | Ben Webster♦ | <a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ado's_theorem">Wikipedia</…> says Ado is true in all characteristics. | |
| Oct 7, 2009 at 21:17 | history | answered | Theo Johnson-Freyd | CC BY-SA 2.5 |