Twisted cocycles of lie algebras and corresponding invariant functions

We consider finite-dimensional complex Lie algebras. Using certain complex parameters we generalize the concept of cohomology cocycles of Lie algebras. A special case is generalization of 1-cocycles with respect to the adjoint representation - so called (α,β,γ)-derivations. Parametric sets of spaces of cocycles allow us to define complex functions which are invariant under Lie isomorphisms. Such complex functions thus represent useful invariants - we show how they classify three and four-dimensional Lie algebras as well as how they apply to some eight-dimensional one-parametric nilpotent continua of Lie algebras. These functions also provide necessary criteria for existence of 1-parametric continuous contraction.     

Irreducible Representations for the Baby Tits–Kantor–Koecher Algebra

The baby Tits–Kantor–Koecher (TKK) algebra constructed from the smallest (nonlattice) semilattice is related to the “smallest” extended affine Lie algebras other than the finite dimensional simple Lie algebras and the affine Kac–Moody algebras. In this article, we classify the finite dimensional irreducible representations for the baby TKK algebra. It turns out that such representations can be lifted from modules of direct sums of finitely many copies of the simple Lie algebra sp ₄(?).     

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.     

Lie Algebras with Nilpotent Length Greater than that of each of their Subalgebras

The main purpose of this paper is to study the finite-dimensional solvable Lie algebras described in its title, which we call minimal non- \({\mathcal N}\). To facilitate this we investigate solvable Lie algebras of nilpotent length k, and of nilpotent length ≤k, and extreme Lie algebras, which have the property that their nilpotent length is equal to the number of conjugacy classes of maximal subalgebras. We characterise the minimal non-\({\mathcal N}\) Lie algebras in which every nilpotent subalgebra is abelian, and those of solvability index ≤3.     

Codimension Growth of Strong Lie Nilpotent Associative Algebras

We study Lie nilpotent varieties of associative algebras. We explicitly compute the codimension growth for the variety of strong Lie nilpotent associative algebras. The codimension growth is polynomial and found in terms of Stirling numbers of the first kind. To achieve the result we take the free Lie algebra of countable rank L(X), consider its filtration by the lower central series and shift it. Next we apply generating functions of special type to the induced filtration of the universal enveloping algebra U(L(X)) = A(X).     

Coupled systems of nonlinear wave equations and finite-dimensional lie algebras II: A nonlinear system arising from the group G 6.1 and its exact integration

In the first paper of this series a correspondence was established between coupled systems of two-dimensional nonlinear wave equations and the six-dimensional simply transitive Lie algebras. In the present paper we make use of this result to construct a Darboux integrable and exactly integrable nonlinear system associated with the six-parameter nilpotent Lie group G _6,1 and we give its exact general solution in terms of four arbitrary functions. The procedure is shown to be an exact linearization of the nonlinear problem.     

Conjugacy of Cartan subalgebras inn-Lie algebras

One of the most profound results in the theory of Lie algebras states that any two Cartan subalgebras of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 are conjugate relative to the group of special automorphisms generated by the exponents of nilpotent inner derivations. Using some new ideas, we prove an analog of this statement for n-ary n-Lie algebras. Other interesting properties of Cartan algebras, which are known to be shared by Lie algebras, are carried over to n-Lie algebras.Translated fromAlgebra i Logika, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 405–419, July-August, 1995.     

Pointed torsion free modules of affine lie algebras

It is shown that all pointed torsion free modules for affine Lie algebras belong to C⁽¹⁾ _n and A⁽¹⁾ _n-1 and are the result of the natural construction of tensoring the Laurent polynomials with a torsion free module of the “underlying” simple finite dimensional Lie Algebra. These latter modules have been completely determined by Britten and Lemire [1].     

Commutative post-Lie algebra structures on Kac–Moody algebras

We determine commutative post-Lie algebra structures on some infinite-dimensional Lie algebras. We show that all commutative post-Lie algebra structures on loop algebras are trivial. This extends the results for finite-dimensional perfect Lie algebras. Furthermore, we show that all commutative post-Lie algebra structures on affine Kac–Moody Lie algebras are “almost trivial”.     

Finite quantum groups over abelian groups of prime exponent

We classify pointed finite-dimensional complex Hopf algebras whose group of group-like elements is abelian of prime exponent p, p>17. The Hopf algebras we find are members of a general family of pointed Hopf algebras we construct from Dynkin diagrams. As special cases of our construction we obtain all the Frobenius-Lusztig kernels of semisimple Lie algebras and their parabolic subalgebras. An important step in the classification result is to show that all these Hopf algebras are generated by group-like and skew-primitive elements.     

The centralizer algebras of lie color algebras

In his 1977 paper, V.G. Kac classified the finite-dimensional simple complex Lie superalgebras. After Kac’s paper, M. Scheunert initiated the study of a generalization of Lie superalgebras - the Lie color algebras. We construct some new families of simple Lie color algebras. Following the work of A. Berele and A. Regev and A.N. Sergeev, who studied the general linear and sq(n)-series superalgebra cases, and the work of G. Benkart, C. Lee Shader, and A. Ram, who studied the orthosymplectic cases, we examine the centralizer algebras of some classical Lie superalgebras and their Lie color algebra counterparts acting on tensor space and derive Schur-Weyl duality results for these algebras and their centralizers.     

HyperKähler Potentials via Finite-Dimensional Quotients

It is known that nilpotent orbits in a complex simple Lie algebra admit hyperKähler metrics with a single function that is a global potential for each of the Kähler structures (a hyperKähler potential). In an earlier paper, the authors showed that nilpotent orbits in classical Lie algebras can be constructed as finite-dimensional hyperKähler quotient of a flat vector space. This paper uses that quotient construction to compute hyperKühler potentials explicitly for orbits of elements with small Jordan blocks. It is seen that the Kähler potentials of Biquard and Gauduchon for SL(n, C)-orbits of elements with X ² = 0, are in fact hyperKähler potentials.     

Direct Unions of Lie Tori (Realization of Locally Extended Affine Lie Algebras)

In this work, we consider realizations of locally extended affine Lie algebras, in the level of core modulo center. We provide a framework similar to the one for extended affine Lie algebras by “direct unions.” Our approach suggests that the direct union of existing realizations of extended affine Lie algebras, in a rigorous mathematical sense, would lead to a complete realization of locally extended affine Lie algebras, in the level of core modulo center. As an application of our results, we realize centerless cores of locally extended affine Lie algebras with specific root systems of types A₁, B, C, and BC.     

Constructions for Octonion and Exceptional Jordan Algebras

In this note we reverse theusual process of constructing the Lie algebras of types G ₂and F ₄ as algebras of derivations of the splitoctonions or the exceptional Jordan algebra and instead beginwith their Dynkin diagrams and then construct the algebras togetherwith an action of the Lie algebras and associated Chevalley groups.This is shown to be a variation on a general construction ofall standard modules for simple Lie algebras and it is well suitedfor use in computational algebra systems. All the structure constantswhich occur are integral and hence the construction specialisesto all fields, without restriction on the characteristic, avoidingthe usual problems with characteristics 2 and 3.     

Local systems in simple finitary lie algebras

A Lie subalgebra L of gl_k(V) is said to be finitary if it consists of elements of finite rank. We show that every simple finitary Lie algebra over a field of characteristic ≠2, 3, 5, 7 has a local system consisting of perfect central extensions of finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras.     

Representations of four-derivation Lie algebras of Block type

Block introduced certain analogues of the Zassenhaus algebras over a field of characteristic 0. The nongraded infinite-dimensional simple Lie algebras of Block type constructed by Xu can be viewed as generalizations of the Block algebras. In this paper, we construct a family of irreducible modules in terms of multiplication and differentiation operators on ＂polynomials＂ for four-devivation nongraded Lie algebras of Block type based on the finite-dimensional irreducible weight modules with multiplicity one of general linear Lie algebras. We also find a new series of submodules from which some irreducible quotient modules are obtained.     

Classes of 2-step nilpotent lie algebras

We give a characterization of the Lie algebras of H-type independent of the inner product used in the definition. We classify the real 2-step nilpotent Lie algebras with 2-dimensional center. Using these results we give examples of regular Lie algebras that are not H-type.     

Metric Lie algebras and quadratic extensions

The present paper contains a systematic study of the structure of metric Lie algebras, i.e., finite-dimensional real Lie algebras equipped with a nondegenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form. We show that any metric Lie algebra g without simple ideals has the structure of a so called balanced quadratic extension of an auxiliary Lie algebra l by an orthogonal l-module a in a canonical way. Identifying equivalence classes of quadratic extensions of l by a with a certain cohomology set H²_Q(l,a), we obtain a classification scheme for general metric Lie algebras and a complete classification of metric Lie algebras of index 3.     

Some Theorems on Leibniz Algebras

If U is a subnormal subalgebra of a finite-dimensional Leibniz algebra L and M is a finite-dimensional irreducible L-bimodule, then all U-bimodule composition factors of M are isomorphic. If U is a subnormal subalgebra of a finite-dimensional Leibniz algebra L, then the nilpotent residual of U is an ideal of L. Engel subalgebras of finite-dimensional Leibniz algebras are shown to have similar properties to those of Lie algebras. A subalgebra is shown to be a Cartan subalgebra if and only if it is minimal Engel, provided that the field has sufficiently many elements.