Solvable quadratic Lie algebras

A Lie algebra endowed with a nondegenerate, symmetric, invariant bilinear form is called a quadratic Lie algebra. In this paper, the author investigates the structure of solvable quadratic Lie algebras, in particular, the solvable quadratic Lie algebras whose Cartan subalgebras consist of semi-simple elements, the author presents a procedure to construct a class of quadratic Lie algebras from the point of view of cohomology and shows that all solvable quadratic Lie algebras can be obtained in this way.     

The Jordan socle and finitary Lie algebras

In this paper we introduce the notion of Jordan socle for nondegenerate Lie algebras, which extends the definition of socle given in [A. Fernández López et al., 3-Graded Lie algebras with Jordan finiteness conditions, Comm. Algebra, in press] for 3-graded Lie algebras. Any nondegenerate Lie algebra with essential Jordan socle is an essential subdirect product of strongly prime ones having nonzero Jordan socle. These last algebras are described, up to exceptional cases, in terms of simple Lie algebras of finite rank operators and their algebras of derivations. When working with Lie algebras which are infinite dimensional over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0, the exceptions disappear and the algebras of derivations are computed.     

Two generator subalgebras of Lie algebras

In [Thompson, J., 1968, Non-solvable finite groups all of whose local subgroups are solvable. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 74, 383–437.], Thompson showed that a finite group G is solvable if and only if every two-generated subgroup is solvable (Corollary 2, p. 388). Recently, Grunevald et al. [Grunewald et al., 2000, Two-variable identities in groups and Lie algebras. Rossiiskaya Akademiya Nauk POMI, 272, 161–176; 2003. Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 116, 2972–2981.] have shown that the analogue holds for finite-dimensional Lie algebras over infinite fields of characteristic greater than 5. It is a natural question to ask to what extent the two-generated subalgebras determine the structure of the algebra. It is to this question that this article is addressed. Here, we consider the classes of strongly-solvable and of supersolvable Lie algebras, and the property of triangulability.     

On ad-nilpotent b-ideals for orthogonal Lie algebras

Krattenthaler, Orsina and Papi provided explicit formulas for the number of ad-nilpotent ideals with fixed class of nilpotence of a Borel subalgebra of a classical Lie algebra. Especially for types A and C they obtained refined results about these ideals with not only fixed class of nilpotence but also fixed dimension. In this paper, we shall follow their algorithm to determine the enumeration of ad-nilpotent b-ideals with fixed class of nilpotence and dimension for orthogonal Lie algebras, i.e., types B and D.     

Jordan isomorphisms of finitary incidence algebras

Let X be a partially ordered set, R a commutative 2-torsionfree unital ring and FI(X, R) the finitary incidence algebra of X over R. In this note we prove that each R-linear Jordan isomorphism of FI(X, R) onto an R-algebra A is the near-sum of a homomorphism and an anti-homomorphism.     

Binary Lie algebras satisfying the third Engel condition

Let Φ be a unital associative commutative ring with 1/2. The local nilpotency is proved of binary Lie Φ-algebras satisfying the third Engel condition. Moreover, it is proved that this class of algebras does not contain semiprime algebras.     

Oriented tree diagram Lie algebras and their abelian ideals

We introduce oriented tree diagram Lie algebras which are generalized from Xu＇s both upward and downward tree diagram Lie algebras, and study certain numerical invariants of these algebras related to abelian ideals.     

Novikov algebras and Novikov structures on Lie algebras

We study ideals of Novikov algebras and Novikov structures on finite-dimensional Lie algebras. We present the first example of a three-step nilpotent Lie algebra which does not admit a Novikov structure. On the other hand we show that any free three-step nilpotent Lie algebra admits a Novikov structure. We study the existence question also for Lie algebras of triangular matrices. Finally we show that there are families of Lie algebras of arbitrary high solvability class which admit Novikov structures.     

c-Graded filiform Lie algebras

In this paper we generalize naturally graded filiform Lie algebras as well as filiform Lie algebras admitting a connected gradation of maximal length, by introducing the concept of c-graded complex filiform Lie algebras. We deal with the particular case of 3-graded filiform Lie algebras and we obtain their classification in arbitrary dimension. We finally show a link among derived algebras, graded filiform and rigid solvable Lie algebras.     

Linearly compact algebraic Lie algebras and coalgebraic Lie coalgebras

It is proved that if the dual Lie algebra of a Lie coalgebra is algebraic, then it is algebraic of bounded degree. This result is an analog of the D.Radford's result for associative coalgebras.

     

Algebraic Lie algebras with complete Borel subalgebras

In this article we prove that an algebraic Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 is complete if its Borel subalgebras are complete. Thus the study on complete Lie algebras may somewhat be reduced to that on solvable complete ones.     

Lie algebras with few centralizers

We will characterize all finite dimensional Lie algebras with at most |F|²+|F|+2 centralizers, where F is the underlying field of Lie algebras under consideration.     

Computing the test rank of a free solvable Lie algebra

We computed the test rank of a free solvable Lie algebra of finite rank.