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Exterior power Created 2026-09-28 Updated 2026-10-14
The th exterior power is the quotient vector space of the tensor power that makes every elementary tensor with two equal factors zero. More precisely, take the quotient vector space by the linear span of all such tensors. Its elementary products turn alternating multilinear maps into linear maps: every alternating -linear map on factors uniquely through .[ref]
Exterior Powers by Keith Conrad. Exterior Powers, §3, Definition 3.1 and Theorem 3.3: quotient construction and universal property
If is an ordered basis, the increasing productsform a basis of . There is one for each -element choice of basis directions, soRepeated directions vanish; products with a different order can be sorted using their sign. Coordinate determinants distinguish the remaining increasing products, establishing linear independence.[ref]
Exterior Powers by Keith Conrad. Exterior Powers, §4, Theorem 4.2: basis and rank of an exterior power
For , a basis of is . This explains the three bivector components in the worked example. The top exterior power has one basis element, , while : four independent directions cannot fit into that vector space. By convention is the scalar field, even when has dimension zero.
Grothendieck inequality 2026-10-14
For a finite real scalar matrix and unit vectors in a real Hilbert space, , with a universal constant. One valid bound is . Expand using odd tensor powers with coefficient magnitudes summing to , then apply the Gaussian sign identity . Taking converts the expectation back to the original inner product. Complex scalars admit a universal bound twice this real bound by separating real and imaginary parts.
Kodaira embedding theorem Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
The Kodaira embedding theorem says that a compact complex manifold carrying a positive holomorphic line bundle is projective: sufficiently large tensor powers of the bundle have global holomorphic sections defining a holomorphic embedding into Complex projective space. Conversely, the restriction of gives a positive line bundle on every projective complex manifold.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 iii Paper 10 4 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
The real Grothendieck inequality asserts that a universal constant satisfiesfor every finite real scalar matrix and vectors of norm at most one in a real Hilbert space. For complex scalars the corresponding scalar supremum is over phases of modulus at most one; a universal complex constant also exists. We prove both versions, without needing the optimal constant.
First, for unit vectors and a standard Gaussian vector on their finite-dimensional span,To see this, rotational symmetry makes the angle of the Gaussian vector uniform in the plane spanned by . The two signs differ with probability . Subtracting twice this probability from one gives the identity; collinear cases follow directly. Zero Gaussian coordinates have probability zero.
Put , so and . In the Hilbert direct sum of odd tensor powers, formed with the Hilbert tensor product inner product, defineThe Hilbert tensor product satisfies . For unit , both transformed vectors have squared norm , and the power series for sine givesFor any finite collection of these transformed vectors, use a standard Gaussian vector on their finite-dimensional span. The sign identity and giveConsequently, writing for the scalar sign supremum,Vectors of norm below one are padded to unit vectors in additional orthogonal directions, using separate directions for the two families so their cross inner products remain unchanged. This proves the real Grothendieck inequality with .
For the complex Grothendieck inequality, rotate the total scalar sum to have nonnegative real part. Its real part is the sum of the two real bilinear expressions involving and . The real inner products are realized in the underlying real Hilbert space, rotating one family by for the imaginary part. Each real coefficient matrix has real sign supremum at most the phase supremum of the original complex matrix. Applying the real inequality twice gives the valid constant . In what follows let denote the appropriate real or complex constant.
Now let be a bounded linear operator into a Hilbert space, and write . If there is nothing to prove. Approximate a finite family of functions by simple functions on a common disjoint measurable partition. For such a family, write and . The vectorshave norm at most . Choose unit vectors with ; zero images contribute zero and can be assigned any unit vector. With inner products linear in their first argument, the Grothendieck inequality givesOver the real field, phases here are signs. For any Banach space , operator norm duality givesIndeed, interchange the two suprema and choose each phase to align the scalar values of the functional. Thus the required summing inequality holds for simple functions. Approximation in the Lp space passes it to arbitrary finite families, since both sides vary continuously under finite sums of errors. We obtainFinally let be the closed span of the Rademacher functions in . Independence, the scalar second moment, and Q2 give, for each finite scalar family,Completion therefore defines a Banach space isomorphism with and . If a bounded projection existed, would be an absolutely summing operator by the result just proved. The ideal property , obtained directly from the defining weak 1-norm, would make absolutely summing. But its first coordinate vectors satisfyA single finite summing constant cannot dominate for all . Hence the closed Rademacher span is not complemented in .
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The classification of finite-dimensional sl2 representations identifies with . In the defining two-dimensional representation,so andOn the th tensor power, the infinitesimal operator associated with is the sum of its actions on the individual factors. These actions commute, so exponentiating their sum is the tensor product of the individual exponentials; the same holds for . Restricting to the symmetric power consequently identifies the operator on with . It follows thatIndeed contributes one minus sign from each of the tensor factors. The Weyl reflection lift in an sl2 representation can therefore square to minus the identity, even though its image in the Weyl group is an involution.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 ii Paper 4 19F b iii Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-14
Let be the central one-dimensional character of a proposed . Since is not cyclic, part (a) makes this one-dimensional character nonfaithful. Choose a nonidentity . It acts as identity on every tensor power and therefore on every summand. There is a one-dimensional character of with : decompose the finite abelian group into cyclic factors and choose a primitive one-dimensional character on a factor where has a nonidentity component. By part (b)(ii), some irreducible representation of has central one-dimensional character on . This cannot occur in any tensor power of , because acts nontrivially on it. Therefore no such tensor-generating irreducible exists.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2012 iii Paper 22 3 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The connection difference as an endomorphism-valued one-form follows because the graded Leibniz rule terms cancel:Thus is a global endomorphism-valued one-form. To define the endomorphism bundle connection, requireThe right side is -linear in , so it is indeed an endomorphism-valued one-form, and replacing by gives . In a frame with connection matrix , its extension to an endomorphism-valued -form isThe endomorphism-valued exterior product combines the wedge of differential forms with composition in . In particular,Expanding proves the curvature difference formula:
The Chern connection is characterized by metric compatibility and . Take Hermitian inner products linear in the first variable. In a holomorphic local frame write , with a positive Hermitian matrix. The second condition forces , and metric compatibility isIts component determines uniquely:Conversely this formula and its conjugate transpose satisfy the metric equation. Under a holomorphic local frame change, and , so the displayed formula transforms by . Hence the local matrices patch, proving existence and uniqueness.
Differentiating givesTherefore the vector-bundle curvature is zero. There is no component, andThe last equality is in holomorphic local frames, so is intrinsic. This is Dolbeault closedness of Chern curvature. The induced endomorphism bundle connection is itself the Chern connection for the Hilbert-Schmidt metric on : the tensor product of a metric-compatible connection and its dual preserves the induced metric, and its part is the induced holomorphic Dolbeault operator. These two properties and uniqueness suffice; no further matrix calculation is needed.
For two metrics, both Chern connections have the same part, so . The part of the curvature difference formula is just ; the other two terms have type , which must cancel because both vector-bundle curvatures have type . ThusBy Dolbeault theorem, this proves that the curvature Dolbeault classis independent of the metric.
Endomorphism composition and wedge product of differential forms define the powers in , rather than in a tensor power of the endomorphism bundle. The Dolbeault operator is a derivation, so . The noncommutative telescoping identity gives the stronger explicit independence statementAll powers of vector-bundle curvature have even total degree, so the derivation introduces no extra signs before . Consequentlyis metric independent. For , the form space and the resulting class are zero. This proves metric independence of curvature Dolbeault powers without assuming that endomorphism-valued forms commute.
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On , define the permutation and diagonal actions byThe inverse in the first formula gives a left action. Applying to every tensor factor and then reordering produces the same tensor as reordering and then applying . Thus the two actions commute. The Schur algebra isIt is the commutant of an operator algebra of the permutation action.
To identify this commutant, use the multilinear isomorphismConjugation by a permutation reorders the factors on the right. Therefore the invariant subspace is the space of symmetric tensors of degree in . It is spanned by . Indeed, the polarization identityexpresses every symmetrized elementary tensor as a linear combination of pure powers. Those symmetrized elementary tensors span the invariant subspace in characteristic zero.
One may restrict to invertible endomorphisms without changing the span. For fixed , the vector-valued polynomial has degree at most . Choose distinct values of away from the finitely many roots of . Polynomial interpolation expresses its constant term as a linear combination of those invertible tensor powers. ConsequentlyThe span is an algebra, since products are .
The image of is semisimple, as a quotient of a semisimple algebra. The double-centralizer theorem for semisimple operator algebras gives . Since the preceding computation says that is the span of the general linear action, the two actions are mutual commutants. More explicitly, semisimple module decomposition givesHere is the multiplicity space, with its natural general linear action. The commutant algebra is the product of the full endomorphism algebras of these multiplicity spaces. Hence each nonzero is irreducible, and distinct spaces have nonisomorphic general linear representations, because the operators span that commutant. A primitive picks a one-dimensional factor from , so is an equivalent realization of as a Schur module.
The range of shapes is exact. If has more than rows, a column antisymmetrizes more than vectors and its action vanishes by . Conversely, for at most rows place the th basis vector in every tensor position belonging to row of . Row symmetrization multiplies this tensor by . Column antisymmetrization is nonzero, because all vectors within each column are distinct, and its different permutations give distinct basis tensors. Thus . This proves the length bound for a Schur module and the stated Schur–Weyl duality. For , the empty partition and give the trivial version.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 17 1 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
The divisor determines the bundle through its local equations. Choose an open cover on which has a reduced holomorphic defining equation , using on sets disjoint from . Because is a complex submanifold of codimension of a submanifold one, its ideal is locally generated by a coordinate; consequently is a nowhere-zero holomorphic function on each overlap. Inside the sheaf of meromorphic functions on a complex manifold, consider the locally free sheaf of rank oneThese local descriptions agree on overlaps. With , its transition functions of a vector bundle are specified byThe ratios satisfy the Čech cocycle condition, and the associated holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor is . The section is holomorphic and vanishes to order one along . Replacing by , with a holomorphic unit, replaces the frame by without changing the subsheaf of meromorphic functions. Refining the cover changes no local sections either. This proves choice independence up to isomorphism rather than merely producing a bundle for one cover.
For a complex manifold of dimension , the canonical bundle isIt is the holomorphic line bundle of holomorphic top-degree differential forms. To compute it on Complex projective space, let be the complex tautological line bundle, so that is the hyperplane line bundle. At a line , the tangent space is . Tensoring the tautological quotient sequence by gives the Euler sequence on complex projective spaceTaking the top exterior power gives ; taking its dual bundle yieldsHere a negative tensor power means the corresponding positive tensor power of the dual bundle.
The proposed sections over form a sheaf: compatible maps into glue uniquely, and their projections remain . Addition and multiplication by holomorphic functions are defined in the fibres of , making this a sheaf of -modules. If is a holomorphic local frame of on , every section over has the unique expressionThus the sheaf is a locally free sheaf of rank one. Its transition functions of a vector bundle are those of composed with , so the corresponding pullback vector bundle is precisely . This proves invertibility locally and compatibility globally.
For the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point, work on the projective chart and writeAll the incidence equations reduce to . Therefore gives a holomorphic coordinate chart isomorphic to . On an overlap with ,which is a biholomorphism where . The incidence subset is closed in the product of two Hausdorff spaces and is covered by these charts; hence it is a complex manifold of dimension . In each chart the exceptional fibre is , so it is a smooth complex submanifold, with its induced projective coordinates givingAway from the origin the inverse of the projection is , which is holomorphic; the projection is therefore a biholomorphism outside .
To find the canonical bundle, pull back the nowhere-zero top form on . In the chart above, its Jacobian determinant givesThe sign depends only on the ordering of the coordinates. This is a section of with divisor on a complex manifold exactly : it has that vanishing order in every exceptional chart and no zeros elsewhere. A nonzero meromorphic section of a holomorphic line bundle with divisor identifies its holomorphic line bundle with , by sending the local generator of to the nowhere-zero frame obtained by dividing the section by . ConsequentlyThis also includes , when the local map is an isomorphism and the exponent is zero.
For a general complex manifold, choose a coordinate neighbourhood of , with sent to , and replace by the inverse image of this coordinate neighbourhood in the local blowup of a complex manifold at a point. Glue this space to along using the preceding biholomorphism. The resulting charts give a complex manifold and a holomorphic map ; the exceptional fibre is and the map is a biholomorphism off that fibre. For completeness, the local projection is proper because its inverse image over a compact subset is closed in that subset times compact Complex projective space. This ensures the gluing is Hausdorff: separate points with distinct images downstairs, and points over inside the local blowup. The atlas is second countable as well.
The top exterior power of the differential defines a global holomorphic bundle map . Equivalently, it is a section of . The same local Jacobian determinant has vanishing order on , and the differential is invertible elsewhere. Applying the holomorphic line bundle associated to a divisor construction gives the canonical bundle formula for a point blowup
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 5 3 Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
For a Young tableau , let permute the entries within its rows and within its columns. We use the Young symmetrizer conventionReversing the order gives another usual realization of the same irreducible polynomial module. On the tensor power , the actions areThey commute because applying to every factor commutes with permuting the factors.
We state the permitted combinatorial input explicitly. A Young symmetrizer satisfies , where is the nonzero hook product of a partition. Thus is a primitive idempotent. The standard-tableau decomposition of the right regular module is . Tensor this right-module direct sum with the left module . The map sending to is an isomorphism, with inverse . Therefore the Young-symmetrizer tensor decomposition isThis is a direct sum of -modules; individual summands need not be -invariant.
We also state the allowed Schur algebra result, namely Schur–Weyl duality: the two actions are mutual commutants, andwhere the are pairwise nonisomorphic irreducible homogeneous polynomial representations of degree . We also use the standard Schur algebra equivalence between its modules and homogeneous degree- polynomial representations, so these exhaust the irreducibles in that category. A primitive idempotent has one-dimensional image on and zero image on the other simple factors, so . This identifies the requested irreducibles. They classify the polynomial degree- representations in this tensor power, not all rational representations of every degree.
The length bound for a Schur module is if and only if . A column of length greater than antisymmetrizes more than vectors and gives zero. Conversely, for , fill every tensor position in row with the th basis vector of . Row symmetrization multiplies it by , and column antisymmetrization is nonzero because the vectors within each column are distinct basis vectors.
A rational representation of an algebraic group is a regular morphism into the general linear group of its representation space. For , its matrix entries belong to ; rational here permits determinant denominators but not arbitrary poles on . A one-dimensional rational character of is a Laurent polynomial with and . Comparing Laurent coefficients shows that just one monomial occurs and its coefficient is , hence for .
Restrict a one-dimensional rational character of to its diagonal torus. The same argument in several variables gives . Conjugation by permutation matrices makes all equal. On every diagonalizable invertible matrix it consequently agrees with . The allowed Zariski-density statement, and equality of regular functions on a dense subset, giveThese are the one-dimensional rational characters of the general linear group.
For complete reducibility of rational GL and SL representations, use the compact-group averaging argument. Average any positive definite Hermitian inner product over using normalized Haar measure. The orthogonal complement of an invariant subspace is then -invariant. Differentiating makes it invariant under and therefore under its complex span . The elementary unipotent matrices generate , so the complement is -invariant. This proves complete reducibility. Averaging over similarly gives complete reducibility for rational representations.
Here is an explicit rational extension from SL to GL. Decompose the representation space by the finite scalar center of into subspaces on which acts as , with and . These subspaces are invariant. For , choose with , set , and defineChanging to changes to , so the two factors cancel. It is a homomorphism, since scalar roots multiply up to the same harmless factor, and it restricts to on .
It is rational as well. Every matrix coefficient of has a polynomial representative on . Averaging that representative over the finite scalar center selects its homogeneous parts with . Substitution in the extension gives , a regular function on . Each -invariant subspace decomposes into its parts, and the extension acts on each part by a scalar times an action. Thus these subspaces are also invariant under the chosen extension. Consequently is irreducible if and only if this is irreducible. For , is trivial and the trivial extension supplies the same conclusion.
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The effective group is torsion free and every modular cusp is regular in the preceding sense, so orders of a meromorphic weight- form are integers. At interior points use a local automorphy trivialization; at a modular cusp use the Fourier order of the appropriate slash transform in its cusp width coordinate. Let be the sum of all modular cusp points, each once, and setA meromorphic function belongs to the Riemann-Roch space exactly when . In the interior this requires to have no pole; at a modular cusp it requires order at least one. Conversely, the quotient of any weight- cusp form by is a meromorphic weight-zero function satisfying precisely those inequalities. This proves the cusp-form divisor presentationTo compute the degree without imposing a valence formula as an extra assumption, use the meromorphic tensor differential . Its automorphy factors cancel. Its order at an interior point is ; at a modular cusp it is , since is a nonzero constant times . A meromorphic section of the th tensor power of the canonical bundle has total divisor degree . The regular-cusp valence formula on a torsion-free modular curve is thereforeFor , . The Riemann-Roch theorem says , and a divisor of negative degree has no nonzero sections. Thus andUsing and givesThe canonical-degree and Riemann-Roch facts used here are general results for compact Riemann surfaces, as permitted.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 118 3 c Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-05
The Dolbeault theorem identifies with . It vanishes by hypothesis, and complex conjugation in the Hodge decomposition theorem for compact Kähler manifolds makes vanish too. Thus every real degree-two cohomology class has type .
Let be a Kähler form. Choose a rational cohomology class sufficiently close to . More concretely, using harmonic differential forms as representatives for a fixed Kähler metric, the harmonic form representing is close to in every smooth norm: harmonic differential forms constitute a finite-dimensional vector space. It is a real closed form, and is positive if sufficiently close to , by compactness. This is the openness of the Kähler cone. Multiplying by a positive integer gives an integral Kähler class .
The holomorphic exponential sequence contains the cohomology segmentChoose an integral lift of . Exactness gives a holomorphic line bundle having that First Chern class. We must ensure that it has a positive metric, rather than merely a positive representative of its class.
Choose any Hermitian metric and let be its normalized curvature form of a Hermitian holomorphic line bundle. If is the positive form representing , then is an exact real form. The ddbar lemma gives a real smooth function withReplace by . Its normalized curvature is , so is a positive holomorphic line bundle. The Kodaira embedding theorem now applies: sufficiently many sections of a sufficiently high tensor power define the desired embedding. Therefore
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Repeatedly using shows that the multiplicity of in the nth tensor power satisfies Pascal's recursion. Consequentlywhere . The multiplicity is the difference between the numbers of weight vectors of weights and .
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2019 iii Paper 118 3 c Solution 2026-10-03
A holomorphic line bundle is ample when some positive tensor power is very ample, so its sections define an embedding into Complex projective space. It is a positive holomorphic line bundle when it has a Hermitian metric with positive Chern curvature . The Kodaira embedding theorem says that a compact complex manifold carrying a positive holomorphic line bundle is projective; sufficiently high tensor powers give a holomorphic embedding into projective space.
Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 102 5 Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
Use the B2 root system conventionThus is the five-dimensional vector representation of the Special orthogonal Lie algebra . Label its weight verticesThe crystal basis is the colored chainbecause each Kashiwara operator subtracts .
For the tensor product of crystals, write for . The complete colored-arrow graph is compactly specified byIts three connected highest-weight components start at , , and . Their vertex sets areTheir highest weights and dimensions identify the ten-vertex component with the exterior square and the other two with the symmetric square. Thereforeof dimensions and , respectively.
Every weight of lies in the root lattice, so every weight of every tensor power also lies in that lattice. But represents the nonzero coset in the quotient of the weight lattice by the root lattice. Consequently no irreducible constituent of can have highest weight , and never occurs.
Polarization spanning of symmetric tensors Created 2026-10-07 Updated 2026-10-14
Over a field of characteristic zero, degree- symmetric tensors are spanned by pure powers . Inclusion-exclusion expands into the sum of all permutation orderings of . Every surviving term uses each of the labels once. This converts an invariant-tensor spanning problem into pure tensor powers.