Indecomposable Lie algebras with nontrivial Levi decomposition cannot have filiform radical
Author(s) -
José Marı́a Ancochea Bermúdez,
Rutwig Campoamor-Stursberg,
L. García Vergnolle
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
international mathematical forum
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1314-7536
pISSN - 1312-7594
DOI - 10.12988/imf.2006.06028
Subject(s) - indecomposable module , decomposition , pure mathematics , mathematics , algebra over a field , chemistry , organic chemistry
Let g = s n r be an indecomposable Lie algebra with nontrivial semisimple Levi subalgebra s and nontrivial solvable radical r. In this note it is proved that r cannot be isomorphic to a filiform nilpotent Lie algebra. The proof uses the fact that any Lie algebra g = snr with filiform radical would degenerate (even contract) to the Lie algebra snfn, where fn is the standard graded filiform Lie algebra of dimension n = dim r. This leads to a contradiction, since no such indecomposable algebra snr with r = fn exists
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