Exceptional isomorphism between sp4 and so5

ID: exceptional-isomorphism-between-sp4-and-so5

Over , the symplectic Lie algebra on a four-dimensional symplectic vector space acts faithfully on its five-dimensional primitive exterior square, preserving its symmetric bilinear form. Faithfulness follows because an operator killing all wedges has all off-diagonal coefficients zero and satisfies for every pair, hence is zero. The source and target Lie algebras both have dimension ten, so this faithful map is an isomorphism to the Special orthogonal Lie algebra .

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