Bourbaki

Proposition 2

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Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter VIII, § 6. Modules over a split semi-simple Lie algebra

Let V be a g\mathfrak{g}-module generated by a primitive element ee of weight ω\omega, and X a semi-simple g\mathfrak{g}-module. Let Φ\Phi be the set of homomorphisms from the g\mathfrak{g}-module V to the g\mathfrak{g}-module X. Then φ→φ(e)\varphi \rightarrow \varphi (e) is an isomorphism from the vector space Φ\Phi to the vector space XπωX^{\omega}_{\pi}.

It is clear that φ(e)∈Xπω\varphi (e)\in X^{\omega}_{\pi} for all φ∈Φ\varphi \in \Phi. If φ∈Φ\varphi \in \Phi and φ(e)=0\varphi (e) = 0, then φ=0\varphi = 0 since ee generates the g\mathfrak{g}-module V. We show that, if ff is a non-zero element of XπωX^{\omega}_{\pi}, there exists φ∈Φ\varphi \in \Phi such that φ(e)=f\varphi (e) =f. Let X′X' be the submodule of X generated by ff. By Prop. 1,X′1, X' is indecomposable, hence simple since X is semi-simple. The element (e,f)(e, f) is primitive in the g\mathfrak{g}-module V×XV\times X. Let N be the submodule of V×XV\times X generated by (e,f)(e, f). Then N∩X⊂N\cap X\subset pr2(N)=X′_2(N) = X', so N∩X=0N\cap X = 0 or X′X'; if N∩X=X′,NN\cap X = X', N contains the linearly independent elements (e,f)(e, f) and (0,f)(0, f) which are primitive of weight ω\omega; this is absurd (Prop. 1), so N∩X=0N\cap X = 0. Thus pr1∣N_1|N is an injective map hh from N to V; this map is surjective since its image contains ee. Thus φ=\varphi = pr2∘h−1_2\circ h^{-1} is a homomorphism from the g\mathfrak{g}-module V to the g\mathfrak{g}-module X such that φ(e)=f\varphi (e) =f.

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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