Let represent . Since is central, commutes with and . Over the complex number field , has an eigenvalue , and its corresponding eigenspace is invariant under all three operators. The irreducibility of therefore makes this eigenspace all of , so . Taking the trace of
gives by the cyclic property of the trace; hence .
The remaining operators and commute. Two commuting operators on a nonzero finite-dimensional complex vector space have a common eigenvector, whose span is invariant. Irreducibility therefore forces . Conversely, every pair defines a one-dimensional irreducible representation by
These are all the finite-dimensional irreducible representations.
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Use the Polynomial representation of the Heisenberg Lie algebra on the infinite-dimensional polynomial ring :
The product rule gives , so this is a Lie algebra representation. It is a Faithful Lie algebra representation: if is the zero operator, applying it first to gives , and then applying the remaining operator to gives .
To prove irreducibility, let be a nonzero invariant subspace and choose a nonzero polynomial in of least degree. If its degree were positive, repeated differentiation would produce a nonzero element of smaller degree, so contains a nonzero constant. Invariance under multiplication by then puts every monomial in , and hence .
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