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18.745, Fall 2004: Lie Algebras Notes

This page collects the course notes taken by 18.745 students to fulfill the class scribing requirement. The class was titled "Lie Algebras", and was taught by Professor Victor Kac. It covers the classification of semisimple Lie algebras, and gives a taste of other topics: Weyl groups, the universal enveloping algebra, Weyl complete reducibility, Verma modules, and Weyl's character formula.

Beware: these notes have not been thoroughly edited, and contain omissions, confusing statements, and outright errors. Neither I, nor Professor Kac, assume any responsibility for their accuracy.

That said, please feel free to send corrections to Alexey Spiridonov.

Here are the lectures so far. I suggest using the PDF format files.

In the cases, where the lecture includes figures, or other files aside from the TeX files, I provide a tar/gzip compressed archive of the full sources. You will need the tgz archive if you wish to run LaTeX on the .tex source.

Lecture Scribe Formats
Lecture 1 Patrick Lam tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 2 Alan Dunn tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 3 Alexey Spiridonov tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 4 Anthony Tagliaferro tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 5 Zhongtao Wu tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 6 Liu Ruochuan tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 7 Karola Meszaros tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 8 Genya Zaytman tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 9 Yaim Cooper nb pdf ps.gz
Lecture 10 Steven Sivek tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 11 Chris Davis tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 12 David Meyer tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 13 Yakov Shapiro tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 14 Maksim Lipyanskiy tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 15 Maksim Maydanskiy tgz tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 16 Josh Powell tgz tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 17 Karola Meszaros tgz tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 18 Alexey Spiridonov
Steven Sivek
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Lecture 19 Patrick Lam tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 20 Alan Dunn
Anthony Tagliaferro
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Lecture 21 Ruochuan Liu
Zhongtao Wu
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Lecture 22 Genya Zaytman
Yaim Cooper
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Lecture 23 David Meyer
Chris Davis
tex pdf ps.gz dvi
Lecture 24 Maksim Lipyanskiy
Yakov Shapiro
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Lecture 25 Maksim Maydanskiy tex pdf ps.gz dvi

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