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Chapter UnitaryCompleteReducibility

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ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility

by leonardopedro · Oct 1, 2026 · Mathlib 0df444a (Lean v4.33.1)

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Formal definitions for the timepiece Lean 4 formalization (source chapter BookProof/ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility.lean): generated def bundle for ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility. See BookProof/ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility.lean for full context.

Definition code
import Mathlib


/-!
# The unitarian trick: complete reducibility of unitary representations

`BookProof.ChapterA3w` takes **Weyl's complete-reducibility theorem** as an
`EXTERNAL` named hypothesis, because for the *non-compact* group `SL(2,ℂ)` it is
genuinely unavailable in Mathlib.  For **unitary** representations the theorem is
elementary — it is Weyl's *unitarian trick* — and this file proves it outright,
with no external input:

* `orthogonal_isInvariant` — the orthogonal complement of an invariant subspace
  of a unitary representation is invariant (valid in any complex inner-product
  space, any group);
* `unitary_complete_reducibility` — in finite dimensions every invariant subspace
  therefore has an invariant complement, namely its orthogonal complement;
* `exists_irreducible_invariant_le` — every nonzero invariant subspace contains an
  irreducible one (a minimal nonzero invariant subspace);
* `exists_irreducible_decomposition` — every invariant subspace is the join of a
  finite list of irreducible invariant subspaces, so a finite-dimensional unitary
  representation is a sum of irreducibles.

Everything is `sorry`-free and `axiom`-free (only `propext`, `Classical.choice`,
`Quot.sound`); no `EXTERNAL` hypothesis, no `axiom`.
-/

namespace BookProof.ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility

open Submodule

variable {G : Type*} [Group G] {V : Type*} [NormedAddCommGroup V] [InnerProductSpace ℂ V]

/-- A subspace `W` is **invariant** under the unitary representation `ρ` iff every
`ρ g` maps `W` into itself. -/
def IsInvariant (ρ : G →* (V ≃ₗᵢ[ℂ] V)) (W : Submodule ℂ V) : Prop :=
  ∀ g : G, ∀ x ∈ W, ρ g x ∈ W

/-- An invariant subspace is **irreducible** iff it is nonzero and its only
invariant subspaces are `⊥` and itself. -/
def IsIrreducibleInvariant (ρ : G →* (V ≃ₗᵢ[ℂ] V)) (W : Submodule ℂ V) : Prop :=
  IsInvariant ρ W ∧ W ≠ ⊥ ∧ ∀ U ≤ W, IsInvariant ρ U → U = ⊥ ∨ U = W















end BookProof.ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility
Source
https://github.com/leonardopedro/timepiece/blob/61595bc/BookProof/ChapterUnitaryCompleteReducibility.lean

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