 Cartan-Weyl basis (source code)

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= Cartan-Weyl basis
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A Cartan-Weyl basis consists of a basis of a <Cartan subalgebra> together with root vectors $E_\alpha$. It makes weight raising and lowering explicit through $[H,E_\alpha]=\alpha(H)E_\alpha$.

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