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If we use the short exact sequence<br />

0 ! L ,! L ,! L= soc L ! 0<br />

and apply the functor Homg(L 0 ; ), we get similarly<br />

Ext 1 (L 0 ;L) ' Homg(L 0 ; L= soc L): (4)<br />

If ( ; ) = 0, then H.8 shows that L 0 is not a composition factor <strong>of</strong> L; this<br />

imp<strong>lie</strong>s now the claim <strong>in</strong> a).<br />

Suppose that ( ; ) < 0. If and have the same length, then h ; _ i = ,1.<br />

Then H.8 and H.11 imply: Given L as above there exists a simple module L 0 1 with<br />

(L 0 1)=f g and<br />

rad L= soc L ' L 0<br />

1 :<br />

Then (3) and (4) show that L 0 1 satis es (1) while these Ext groups are 0 for any<br />

simple module L 0 2 with (L 0 2)=f g and L 0 2 6' L 0 1.<br />

Consider now the case where and have di erent lengths. The claim <strong>in</strong><br />

the proposition is symmetric <strong>in</strong> and .Sowemay assume that is short and<br />

is long. So there is up to isomorphism only one choice for L 0 while there are one<br />

or two possibilities for L. Wehave h ; _ i = ,1 and h ; _ i = ,2. Lemma H.8<br />

yields therefore<br />

rad L= soc L ' L 0 :<br />

This imp<strong>lie</strong>s that (1) holds for all possible L and L 0 .<br />

c) The pro<strong>of</strong> is similar and left to the reader.<br />

Remark: Let , be simple roots with ( ; ) < 0suchthat is short and is<br />

long. We knowthat there exists up to isomorphism only one simple module L<br />

<strong>in</strong> C with <strong>in</strong>variant f g. Consider now M = rad L = soc L . Lemma H.8<br />

tells us that M has length 2, with both factors hav<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>variant f g. Part b) <strong>of</strong><br />

the proposition imp<strong>lie</strong>s us<strong>in</strong>g (3) and (4) that each simple module L <strong>in</strong> C<br />

<strong>in</strong>variant f g occurs with multiplicity 1 <strong>in</strong> the socle and <strong>in</strong> the head <strong>of</strong> M.<br />

with<br />

There are now two possibilities: If there are (as expected) two isomorphism<br />

classes (with representatives L ;1 and L ;2 ) <strong>of</strong> simple modules <strong>in</strong> C with <strong>in</strong>variant<br />

f g, then we can apply the discussion to L = L ;1 and to L = L ;2. It follows<br />

that M ' L ;1 L ;2 <strong>in</strong> this case. If, however, there is only one such class, then<br />

M has to be a non-split extension <strong>of</strong> L by itself. So, as <strong>in</strong> other situations, it is<br />

desirable to show that the middle M is completely reducible.<br />

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