Over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, any two Cartan subalgebras of the symplectic Lie algebra are conjugate by the symplectic group. A Cartan subalgebra is an abelian Lie algebra and equals its centralizer of a Lie subalgebra. The symplectic centralizer decomposition therefore forces all its weight spaces in to be one-dimensional, nonzero, and paired by opposite weights of a representation. Choose a basis vector in each space, normalizing the perfect pairing with its opposite to one. These vectors form a symplectic basis . In this basis, is contained in the Lie subalgebra of diagonal matrices with entries . All those diagonal matrices commute with , so equality with its centralizer of a Lie subalgebra forces equality with the entire diagonal Lie subalgebra. Repeating for gives a second symplectic basis. The linear map sending one symplectic basis to the other belongs to the symplectic group and conjugates the two diagonal Lie subalgebras, proving the claim.

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