Notes on Chevalley Groups and Root Category II: Compact Lie Groups and Representations
Representation Theory
2026-02-26 v2
Abstract
This paper is a continuation of [5]. Using the root categories, we define the compact real forms of the complex semisimple Lie algebras, and maximal compact subgroups of the Chevalley groups over . In [7], Lusztig used the modified quantum group and its canonical basis to obtain the reductive group and its coordinate ring , in particular the tensor product decomposition of . By combining these two kinds of structures, we explore in this paper how the classical theory of the compact Lie groups, such as Peter-Weyl theorem and Plancherel theorem, can be recovered completely.
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@article{arxiv.2512.05752,
title = {Notes on Chevalley Groups and Root Category II: Compact Lie Groups and Representations},
author = {Buyan Li and Jie Xiao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.05752},
year = {2026}
}
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40 pages