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Mathlib.RepresentationTheory.AlgebraRepresentation.Basic

Basic facts about algebra representations #

This file collects basic general facts about algebra representations. The purpose of this file is to have general results so that when we prove a corresponding fact about group representations (or Lie algebra representations etc), we can deduce them as special cases of facts from this file.

Schur's Lemma: If V is a representation of an algebra A over an algebraically closed field k, then any endomorphism of V is scalar.

Any finite-dimensional irreducible representation of a commutative algebra over an algebraically closed field is one-dimensional.