Corollary
Tag 0APO, permanent. Cite it as [Bourbaki, Tag 0APO].
Lie Groups and Lie Algebras, chapter V, § 2. Reflections
Two distinct reflections s and u commute if and only if and .
If and , Prop. 3, (i) shows that and are stable under , hence by Prop. 3, (ii).
Conversely, if , the subspace is stable under by (ii); by (i), there are two possible cases:
a) We have : since they are both of dimension 1, these spaces are therefore equal, hence ; since is stable under , we have and so these two hyperplanes are equal. But then , contrary to our assumptions.
b) We have : the image of is thus contained in the kernel of , so . Since and commute, we have , in other words .
Bourbaki puts the proof directly after the statement, so what is above is the statement and its proof together.
Cited by
Nothing.