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The normalizer of a Lie subalgebra and the centralizer of a Lie subalgebra are
The second is always contained in the first. Conversely, let and . Then , and, because is an abelian Lie algebra,
By the definition of a toral subalgebra, is diagonalizable. A diagonalizable linear map satisfies : in an eigenbasis, both kernels consist of exactly the eigenvectors whose eigenvalue is zero. Thus . This holds for every , so and
This is the normalizer-centralizer equality for a toral abelian subalgebra; it does not require to be a semisimple Lie algebra.

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