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Example 1.
The Lie algebra of 4 x 4 upper triangular matrices is a 10 dimensional Lie algebra which is naturally graded - consists of the matrices with only non-zero elements on the diagonal, consists of the matrices with non-elements immediately above the diagonal (the super diagonal) and so on.
We use Query to verify this. First we use the program MatrixAlgebras to generate the Lie algebra data structure for the Lie algebra of upper triangular matrices. Here denotes the matrix with a 1 in the -th row and -th column.
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To display the Lie algebra multiplication table, we need to increase the value of the interface parameter rtablesize.
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Now define the 4 subspaces which will define our gradation.
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Here is the same calculation, obtained using the second calling sequence. First create a table with specifies the weight of each basis vector.
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Example 2.
In this example we construct the standard gradation for , the Lie algebra of trace-free matrices. First we use SimpleLieAlgebraData to retrieve the structure equations for this Lie algebra.
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