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''triangular element''

A trigonalizable element of the algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942001.png" /> of endomorphisms of a finite-dimensional vector space <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942002.png" /> over a field <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942003.png" /> is an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942004.png" /> all eigenvalues of which belong to <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942005.png" />. If <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942006.png" /> is algebraically closed, then every element of <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942007.png" /> is trigonalizable. For a trigonalizable element <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942008.png" /> (and only for such an element) there exists a basis in <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t0942009.png" /> with respect to which the matrix of the endomorphism <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420010.png" /> is triangular (or, what is the same, there exists a complete flag in <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420011.png" /> that is invariant with respect to <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420012.png" />). A trigonalizable element has a [[Jordan decomposition|Jordan decomposition]] over <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420013.png" />. There exist a number of generalizations of the notion of a trigonalizable element in <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420014.png" /> for the case that <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420015.png" /> is infinite-dimensional (see ).

A trigonalizable element of a finite-dimensional algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420016.png" /> over a field <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420017.png" /> is an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420018.png" /> such that the operator of right (or left, depending on the case under consideration) multiplication by <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420019.png" /> is a trigonalizable element in the algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420020.png" />. If <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420021.png" /> is isomorphic to the algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420022.png" /> for some finite-dimensional vector space <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420023.png" /> over <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420024.png" />, then these two (formally distinct) definitions reduce to the same concept.

In Lie algebras, trigonalizability of an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420025.png" /> means trigonalizability of the endomorphism <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420026.png" /> (where <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420027.png" />). The set of all trigonalizable elements in a Lie algebra is, in general, not closed with respect to the operations of addition and commutation (for example, for <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420028.png" />, the simple Lie algebra of real matrices of order 2 with trace 0). However, in the case of a solvable algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420029.png" />, this set is even a characteristic ideal of <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420030.png" />.

A trigonalizable element in a connected finite-dimensional Lie group <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420031.png" /> is an element <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420032.png" /> such that <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420033.png" /> is a trigonalizable element in <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420034.png" /> (here <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420035.png" /> is the adjoint representation of the Lie group <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420036.png" /> in the group <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420037.png" /> of automorphisms of its Lie algebra <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420038.png" />). If <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420039.png" /> is the exponential mapping and <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420040.png" /> is a trigonalizable element (in the sense of 2)), then <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420041.png" /> is a trigonalizable element of <img align="absmiddle" border="0" src="https://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/legacyimages/t/t094/t094200/t09420042.png" />. The converse is, in general, false.

Lie algebras and Lie groups all elements of which are trigonalizable are called trigonalizable algebras or groups, respectively, and also supersolvable Lie algebras, respectively (cf. [[Lie algebra, supersolvable|Lie algebra, supersolvable]]; [[Lie group, supersolvable|Lie group, supersolvable]]).

====References====
<table><TR><TD valign="top">[1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  A. Borel,   "Linear algebraic groups" , Benjamin  (1969)</TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top">[2]</TD> <TD valign="top">  B.I. Plotkin,   "Groups of automorphisms of algebraic systems" , Wolters-Noordhoff  (1972)</TD></TR><TR><TD valign="top">[3]</TD> <TD valign="top">  M.M. Postnikov,   "Linear algebra and differential geometry" , Moscow  (1979)  (In Russian)</TD></TR></table>



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====References====
<table><TR><TD valign="top">[a1]</TD> <TD valign="top">  N. Bourbaki,   "Elements of mathematics. Lie groups and Lie algebras" , Addison-Wesley  (1975)  (Translated from French)</TD></TR></table>