Bourbaki

Proposition 4

Tag 00WR, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 00WR].

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter VII, § 5. Decomposable linear Lie algebras

Let g\mathfrak{g} be a Lie subalgebra of gl(V)\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(V) and n\mathfrak{n} an ideal of g\mathfrak{g}. Then n\mathfrak{n} and e(n)e(\mathfrak{n}) are ideals of e(g)e(\mathfrak{g}), and [e(g),e(n)]=[g,n][e(\mathfrak{g}), e(\mathfrak{n})] = [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}].

Let g1\mathfrak{g}_1 be the set of x∈gl(V)x\in \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(V) such that [x,n]⊂[g,n][x,\mathfrak{n}]\subset [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}]. This is a decomposable Lie subalgebra of gl\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(V), containing g\mathfrak{g} and hence e(g)e(\mathfrak{g}), cf. no. 1, Prop. 3; in other words, [e(g),n]⊂[g,n][e(\mathfrak{g}),\mathfrak{n}]\subset [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}]. Let n1\mathfrak{n}_1 be the set of y∈gl(V)y\in \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(V) such that

[e(g),y]⊂[g,n] [e(\mathfrak{g}), y]\subset [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}]

This is a decomposable Lie subalgebra of gl(V)\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}(V) containing n\mathfrak{n} by the preceding, and hence containing e(n)e(\mathfrak{n}); in other words [e(g),e(n)]⊂[g,n][e(\mathfrak{g}), e(\mathfrak{n})]\subset [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}], so

[e(g),e(n)]=[g,n] [e(\mathfrak{g}), e(\mathfrak{n})] = [\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{n}]

It follows that [e(g),n]⊂[e(g),e(n)]⊂n[e(\mathfrak{g}),\mathfrak{n}]\subset [e(\mathfrak{g}), e(\mathfrak{n})]\subset \mathfrak{n}, so n\mathfrak{n} and e(n)e(\mathfrak{n}) are ideals of e(g)e(\mathfrak{g}).

Bourbaki sets the proof directly after the statement, and the corpus does not separate them, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.

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