A refinement of the toral rank conjecture for 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras

It is known that the total (co)-homoloy of a 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra is at least , where is the center of . We improve this result by showing that a better lower bound is , where and is a complement of in . Furthermore, we provide evidence that this is the best possible bound of the form .

     

Degenerations of binary Lie and nilpotent Malcev algebras

We describe degenerations of four-dimensional binary Lie algebras, and five- and six-dimensional nilpotent Malcev algebras over ?. In particular, we describe all irreducible components of these varieties.     

Explicit Betti numbers for a family of nilpotent Lie algebras

Betti numbers for the Heisenberg Lie algebras were calculated by Santharoubane in his 1983 paper. However few other examples have appeared in the literature. In this note we give the Betti numbers for a family of -dimensional 2-step nilpotent extensions of by .

     

On the tensor square of non-abelian nilpotent finite-dimensional Lie algebras

For every finite p-group G of order p ⁿ with derived subgroup of order p ^m , Rocco [N.R. Rocco, On a construction related to the nonabelian tensor square of a group, Bol. Soc. Brasil. Mat. 1 (1991), pp. 63–79] proved that the order of tensor square of G is at most p ^n(n?m). This upper bound has been improved recently by the author [P. Niroomand, On the order of tensor square of non abelian prime power groups (submitted)]. The aim of this article is to obtain a similar result for a non-abelian nilpotent Lie algebra of finite dimension. More precisely, for any given n-dimensional non-abelian nilpotent Lie algebra L with derived subalgebra of dimension m we have dim(L???L)?≤?(n???m)(n???1)?+?2. Furthermore for m?=?1, the explicit structure of L is given when the equality holds.     

Standard tableaux and Klyachko's theorem on Lie representations

We show that for all but two partitions λ of n>6 there exists a standard tableau of shape λ with major index coprime to n. In conjunction with a deep result of Kra?kiewicz and Weyman this provides a new purely combinatorial proof of Klyachko's famous theorem on Lie representations of the general linear group.     

The index of centralizers of elements in classical Lie algebras

The index of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ is the minimum of dimensions of the stabilizers $\mathfrak{g}_\alpha $ over all covectors $\alpha \in \mathfrak{g}^ * $ . Let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a reductive Lie algebra over a field $\mathbb{K}$ of characteristic ≠ = 2. Élashvili conjectured that the index of $\mathfrak{g}_\alpha $ is always equal to the index, or, which is the same, the rank of $\mathfrak{g}$ . In this article, Élashvili’s conjecture is proved for classical Lie algebras. Furthermore, it is shown that if $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}_n $ or $\mathfrak{g} = \mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}_{2n} $ and $e \in \mathfrak{g}$ is a nilpotent element, then the coadjoint action of $\mathfrak{g}_e $ has a generic stabilizer. For $\mathfrak{g}$ , we give examples of nilpotent elements $e \in \mathfrak{g}$ such that the coadjoint action of $\mathfrak{g}_e $ does not have a generic stabilizer.     

Breadth and characteristic sequence of nilpotent Lie algebras

The notion of breadth of a nilpotent Lie algebra was introduced and used to approach problems of classification up to isomorphism in [5 Khuhirun, B., Misra, K. C., Stitzinger, E. (2015). On nilpotent Lie algebras of small breadth. J. Algebra 444:328–338.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]]. In the present paper, we study this invariant in terms of characteristic sequence, another invariant, introduced by Goze and Ancochea in [1 Ancochea-Bermúdez, J. M., Goze, M. (1986). Sur la classification des algèbres de Lie nilpotentes de dimension 7. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 302:611–613. [Google Scholar]]. This permits to complete the determination of Lie algebras of breadth 2 studied in [5 Khuhirun, B., Misra, K. C., Stitzinger, E. (2015). On nilpotent Lie algebras of small breadth. J. Algebra 444:328–338.[Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]] and to begin the work for Lie algebras with breadth greater than 2.     

On the dimension of the Schur multiplier of nilpotent lie algebras

We give a bound on the dimension of the Schur multiplier of a finite dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra which sharpens the earlier known bounds.     

Invariant distributions supported on the nilpotent cone of a semisimple Lie algebra

Let be a semisimple complex Lie algebra with adjoint group and be the algebra of differential operators with polynomial coefficients on . If is a real form of , we give the decomposition of the semisimple -module of invariant distributions on supported on the nilpotent cone.

     

On Einstein extensions of nilpotent metric Lie algebras

The main result of the article is as follows: If a nilpotent noncommutative metric Lie algebra (n, Q) is such that the operator Id ? trace(Ric) / trace(Ric²) Ric is positive definite then every Einstein solvable extension of (n, Q) is standard. We deduce several consequences of this assertion. In particular, we prove that all Einstein solvmanifolds of dimension at most 7 are standard.     

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.     

Twisted Hamiltonian Lie algebras and their multiplicity-free representations

We construct a class of new Lie algebras by generalizing the one-variable Lie algebras generated by the quadratic conformal algebras (or corresponding Hamiltonian operators) associated with Poisson algebras and a quasi-derivation found by Xu. These algebras can be viewed as certain twists of Xu’s generalized Hamiltonian Lie algebras. The simplicity of these algebras is completely determined. Moreover, we construct a family of multiplicity-free representations of these Lie algebras and prove their irreducibility.     

Minimal algebras and 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras in dimension 7

We use the methods of Bazzoni and Muñoz (Trans Am Math Soc 364:1007–1028, 2012) to give a classification of 7-dimensional minimal algebras, generated in degree 1, over any field ${\mathbf{k}}$ of characteristic ${{\rm char}(\mathbf{k})\neq 2}$ , whose characteristic filtration has length 2. Equivalently, we classify 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras in dimension 7. This classification also recovers the real homotopy type of 7-dimensional 2-step nilmanifolds.