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Apply the lowering operator F to the highest-weight vector from part (ii). Since Fw03​=4w13​+w04​ and Fw12​=2w13​, we obtain
Fv+​=w04​−2w13​∈W0​.​
(1)
This is nonzero because w04​,w13​ are distinct elements of the exterior power basis. Both have weight zero. As a consistency check, the raising operator sends this vector to 2v+​, as required by the sl2 highest-weight lowering formula.

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