Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2015/iii/paper-2/3/ii/solution

Let and . This one-dimensional abelian Lie algebra is not a semisimple Lie algebra. For , its Additive Jordan decomposition is and . Neither belongs to : comparing diagonal entries and then the upper-right entry rules out both scalar multiples. Therefore nonsemisimple matrix Lie subalgebras need not be closed under Additive Jordan decomposition.

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