A JORDAN APPROACH TO FINITARY LIE ALGEBRAS

作者:Fernandez Lopez Antonio
来源:The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, 2016, 67(4): 565-571.
DOI:10.1093/qmath/haw031

摘要

A Lie algebra L over a field F is said to be finitary if it is isomorphic to a subalgebra of the Lie algebra of finite rank linear transformations of a vector space over F. A non- zero element a is an element of L is said to be extremal if ad(a)(2)L = Fa By using Baranov ' s classification, it is not difficult to verify that any simple finitary Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0 is spanned by extremal elements. In this note, we provide a classification- free proof of this result by using Jordan theory instead of representation theory.

  • 出版日期2016-12

全文