Query[Solvable] - check if a Lie algebra is solvable
Calling Sequences
Query(Alg, "Solvable")
Query(S, "Solvable")
Parameters
Alg - (optional) name or string, the name of an initialized Lie algebra
S - a list of vectors defining a basis for a subalgebra
Description
Examples
A Lie algebra is solvable if the -th ideal in the derived series for is 0 for some . Every nilpotent Lie algebra is solvable.
Query(Alg, "Solvable") returns true if Alg is a solvable Lie algebra and false otherwise. If the algebra is unspecified, then Query is applied to the current algebra.
Query(S, "Solvable") returns true if the subalgebra S is a solvable Lie algebra and false otherwise.
The command Query is part of the DifferentialGeometry:-LieAlgebras package. It can be used in the form Query(...) only after executing the commands with(DifferentialGeometry) and with(LieAlgebras), but can always be used by executing DifferentialGeometry:-LieAlgebras:-Query(...).
Example 1.
We initialize three different Lie algebras.
Alg1 and Alg2 are solvable but Alg3 is not. (Alg1 is actually nilpotent while Alg3 is semisimple.)
The subalgebra spanis a solvable subalgebra of Alg3. (The algebra Alg3 is and is a Borel subalgebra.)
See Also
DifferentialGeometry
LieAlgebras
Query
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