In the irreducible sl2 Lie algebra module , use , with . The Lie-invariant bilinear form is nondegenerate: its anti-diagonal is nonzero. Invariance follows from , and . Its transpose equals , so it is a symmetric bilinear form when is an even number, and an alternating bilinear form when is an odd integer. The Weyl complete reducibility theorem gives a nondegenerate invariant form on any finite-dimensional module by taking the orthogonal direct sum of these forms.
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