Solution

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The induced raising operator and lowering operator act by
Since and has weight , it generates the seven-dimensional irreducible sl2 Lie algebra module . By complete reducibility of semisimple Lie algebra representations, subtracting its weights , each of multiplicity one, from the weight diagram leaves weights once each. Hence
These are the only two irreducible isomorphism types occurring as submodules.
For the three-dimensional summand, calculate and . Therefore
is a nonzero highest-weight vector of weight . The classification of finite-dimensional sl2 representations shows that the submodule it generates is the irreducible module , of dimension three.

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