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Linear representations of algebras and groups, Lie theory, associative algebras, multilinear algebra.

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sl(2)-modules... [closed]

I'm trying to learn some Lie algebra without much knowledge of representation theory. While being asked to prove some things about an sl(2)-module, why can one assume that the module is irreducible an …