Malcev superalgebras with trival nucleus

The nucleus of a Malcev superalgebra M measures how far it is from being a Lie superalgebraM being a Lie superalgebra if and only if its nucleus is the whole M. This paper is devoted to study Malcev superalgebras in the opposite direction, that is, with trivial nucleus. The odd part of any finite-dimensional Malcev superalgebra with trivial nucleus is shown to be contained in the solvable radical. For algebraically closed fields, any such superalgebra splits as the sum of its solvable radical and a semisimple Malcev algebra contained in the even part, which is a direct sum of copies of sl(2, F) and the seven-dimensional simple non-Lie Malcev algebra, obtained from the Cayley-Dickson algebra.