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Robin Chapman
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Reductive Lie algebra
I'm not familiar with the definition of when a Lie subalgebra is reductive in a Lie algebra. Please can you remind us of it?
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On the full reducibility of representations of reductive Lie algebras
In his textbook, Humphreys sets as an exercise that a finite-dimensional representation of a reductive Lie algebra $L$ is completely reducible if every element in the centre of $L$ acts as a semisimple endomorphism.
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On the full reducibility of representations of reductive Lie algebras
Does "semisimple" for representations mean "completely reducible"? If so this is false as the only Lie algebras for which all finite-dimensional representations are completely reducible are the semisimple Lie algebras.
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distribution of coprime integers
Alexey, is that really the way you spell your surname?
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Fields with trivial automorphism group
added a further examples
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Fields with trivial automorphism group
One shows, by fair means or foul, that an automorphism of $\mathbb{Q}_p$ must be continuous. For instance it suffices to prove that an automorphism preserves $\mathbb{Z}_p$.
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Borel vs measure for all Borel measures
The collection of Borel sets on $\mathbb{R}$ has this cardinality, but not the collection of Borel sets on an arbitrary locally compact $X$.
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Connected subset of matrices ?
rewrote with extra details
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Complement of a Cayley graph
Isn't it the Cayley graph (under tbg's defintion) for $S=\emptyset$?
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Is a field uniquely determined by its multiplicative group/how much knows K_1 about fields?
The class number is irrelevant. If $K$ is a number field, then $K^*$ is isomorphic to the direct product of a finite cyclic group (whose order is the number of roots of unity in $K$) with a free abelian group of infinite countale rank.
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Can curves induced by analytic maps wiggle infinitely across a line?
Each $f(t_j)/t_j^n$ is real. As $j\to\infty$, $t_j\to0$ and so $f(t_j)/t_j^n\to a_n$. As the limit of a sequence of real numbers, $a_n$ is real.
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