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The finite-dimensional representation theory of SL(2, R) is equivalent to the representation theory of SU(2), which is the compact real form of SL(2, C). In particular, SL(2, R) has no nontrivial finite-dimensional unitary representations. This is a feature of every connected simple non-compact Lie group.
However, if A is a field with more than 2 elements, then E(2, A) = [GL(2, A), GL(2, A)], and if A is a field with more than 3 elements, E(2, A) = [SL(2, A), SL(2, A)]. [ dubious – discuss ] In some circumstances these coincide: the special linear group over a field or a Euclidean domain is generated by transvections, and the stable special ...
It generates the center of the universal enveloping algebra of the complexified Lie algebra of SL(2, R). The Casimir element acts on any irreducible representation as multiplication by some complex scalar μ 2. Thus in the case of the Lie algebra sl 2, the infinitesimal character of an irreducible representation is specified by one complex number.
Some authors define the modular group to be PSL(2, Z), and still others define the modular group to be the larger group SL(2, Z). Some mathematical relations require the consideration of the group GL(2, Z) of matrices with determinant plus or minus one. (SL(2, Z) is a subgroup of this group.) Similarly, PGL(2, Z) is the quotient group GL(2, Z ...
Rings of modular forms of congruence subgroups of SL(2, Z) are finitely generated due to a result of Pierre Deligne and Michael Rapoport. Such rings of modular forms are generated in weight at most 6 and the relations are generated in weight at most 12 when the congruence subgroup has nonzero odd weight modular forms, and the corresponding ...
The algebra plays an important role in the study of chaos and fractals, as it generates the Möbius group SL(2,R), which describes the automorphisms of the hyperbolic plane, the simplest Riemann surface of negative curvature; by contrast, SL(2,C) describes the automorphisms of the hyperbolic 3-dimensional ball.
Since all symplectic matrices have determinant 1, the symplectic group is a subgroup of the special linear group SL(2n, F). When n = 1, the symplectic condition on a matrix is satisfied if and only if the determinant is one, so that Sp(2, F) = SL(2, F). For n > 1, there are additional conditions, i.e. Sp(2n, F) is then a proper subgroup of SL ...
The element h of the sl 2-triple is semisimple, with the simple eigenvalues j, j − 2, ..., −j on a submodule of g isomorphic to V j. The elements e and f move between different eigenspaces of h, increasing the eigenvalue by 2 in case of e and decreasing it by 2 in case of f. In particular, e and f are nilpotent elements of the Lie algebra g.