Bourbaki

Proposition 6

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Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter IX, § 4. Root system associated to a compact group

The homomorphism ρ:G→GL(V)\rho : G\rightarrow \mathbf{G}\mathbf{L}(V) is injective if and only if P(ρ,T)P(\rho ,T) generates the Z\mathbf{Z}-module X(T).

The homomorphism ρ\rho is injective if and only if its restriction to T is injective (§2, no. 6, Prop. 9). Further, since the canonical homomorphism GL(V)→GL(V~)\mathbf{G}\mathbf{L}(V)\rightarrow \mathbf{G}\mathbf{L}( \widetilde{V}) is injective, we can replace ρ\rho by ρ~\widetilde{\rho}. It then follows from (7) that the kernel of the restriction of ρ\rho to T is the intersection of the kernels of the elements of P(ρ,T)P(\rho ,T). Thus, the conclusion follows from Prop. 2 of no. 1.

The linear representation L(ρ)L(\rho ) of t\mathfrak{t} in gl(V~)\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}( \widetilde{V}) extends to a homomorphism of C\mathbf{C}-Lie algebras

L~(ρ):tC→gl(V~) \widetilde{L}(\rho ) :\mathfrak{t}_{\mathbf{C}}\rightarrow \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}( \widetilde{V})

Moreover, recall (no. 1) that we have associated to every element λ\lambda of X(T) a linear form δ(λ)\delta (\lambda ) on tC\mathfrak{t}_{\mathbf{C}} such that

(expTx_Tx)λ=eδ(λ)(x),x∈t^{\lambda}=e^{\delta(\lambda)(x)},x\in \mathfrak{t}. (10)

Recall finally (Chap. VII, §1, no. 1) that, for any map μ:tC→C\mu:\mathfrak{t}_{\mathbf{C}}\rightarrow \mathbf{C}, we denote by V~μ(tC)\widetilde{V}_\mu(\mathfrak{t}_{\mathbf{C}}) the vector subspace of V~\widetilde{V} consisting of the vv such that (L~(ρ)(u))(v)=μ(u).v(\widetilde{L}(\rho )(u))(v) =\mu(u).v for all u∈tCu\in \mathfrak{t}_{\mathbf{C}}.

We now deduce from (7) and loc. cit., Prop. 3:

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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