Talk:Semisimple Lie algebra/Comments

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Arcfrk 07:30, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi. I think this definition of a semisimple Lie algebra relies on the Lie algebra g to be finite dimensional and over a field of characteristic zero. Otherwise, we start running into problems with Lie algebras such as gl(p, F), where F has characteristic p > 0.

Ifyoudontknow (talk) 05:06, 21 March 2008 (UTC)