Killing-normalized contraction of a cubic trace tensor

ID: killing-normalized-contraction-of-a-cubic-trace-tensor

Lowering and raising structure constants with the Killing form gives . Since is antisymmetric in , only the commutator part of the cubic trace tensor of a Lie algebra representation contributes, proving . In an adapted compact basis with and , the resulting sign is positive: . Defining the lowered structure constants with a positive Euclidean metric instead would reverse this sign.
// Target: lie-theory.bigb

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