Inverse conjugation and adjoint antirepresentations
ID: inverse-conjugation-and-adjoint-antirepresentations
With Adjoint representation convention , the matrix exponential identity is . Inverse conjugation reverses product order, so it is a right action or antirepresentation, whereas is an ordinary left group representation. The first-order terms detect a sign mismatch immediately. Negating every adjoint generator without reversing the Lie bracket does not give a new Lie-algebra homomorphism.
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