Bourbaki

Lemma 1

Tag 0171, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0171].

Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter VIII, § 11. Classes of nilpotent elements and sl2 -triplets

Let x,h,y,y′∈gx, h, y, y'\in \mathfrak{g}. If (x,h,y)(x, h, y) and (x,h,y′)(x, h, y') are sl2\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{l}_2-triplets in g\mathfrak{g}, then y=y′y=y'.

Indeed, y−y′∈y-y'\in Ker(adgx_{\mathfrak{g}}x) and (adgh_{\mathfrak{g}}h)(y−y′)=−2(y−y′)(y-y') =-2(y-y'). But adgx_{\mathfrak{g}}x is injective on Ker(p+p+ adgh_{\mathfrak{g}}h) for every integer p>0(p >0 (§1, no. 2, Cor. of Prop. 2).

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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