In several influential works, Melrose has studied examples of noncompact manifolds M0 whose large scale geometry is described by a Lie algebra of vector fields V ⊂ Γ(M ;TM) on a compactification of M0 to a manifold with corners M . The geometry of these manifolds—called “manifolds with a Lie structure at infinity”—was studied from an axiomatic point of view in a previous paper of ours. In this ...

Classification theory guarantees the existence of an isomorphism between any two E8’s, at least over an algebraically closed field of characteristic 0. The purpose of this paper is to construct for any Jordan algebra J of degree 3 over a field Φ of characteristic ≠ 2,3 an explicit isomorphism between the algebra obtained from J by Faulkner’s construction and the algebra obtained from the split ...

The Lie algebra W = DerA is called the Witt algebra. It consists of “vector fields” f∂, f ∈ A. In particular, dimF W = dimF A = p. As any Lie algebra of derivations of a commutative algebra over F, W has a canonical structure of a restricted Lie algebra. Recall that a restricted Lie algebra is a Lie algebra over F with an additional unary (in general, non-linear) operation g 7→ g satisfying the...

Let g be a nonabelian Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field K of characteristic 0. One is interested in the (algebraically) irreducible representations of g acting on a vector space which is allowed to be infinite dimensional. The subject of enveloping algebras is largely concerned with these, but even in the simplest nonabelian case, with g = I) the 3-dimensional (nilpotent) Heisenber...

We prove that every Lie algebra can be decomposed into a solvable Lie algebra and a semisimple Lie algebra. Then we show that every complex semisimple Lie algebra is a direct sum of simple Lie algebras. Finally, we give a complete classification of simple complex Lie algebras.

We propose the Lie-algebraic interpretation of poly-analytic functions in $$L_2({{\mathbb {C}}},d\mu )$$ , with Gaussian measure $$d\mu $$ based on a flag structure formed by representation spaces $$\mathfrak {sl}(2)$$ -algebra realized differential operators z and $${\bar{z}}$$ . Following pattern one-dimensional situation, we define poly-Fock d complex variables way, as invariant for action g...

It is proved that the derivation algebra of a centerless perfect Lie algebra of arbitrary dimension over any field of arbitrary characteristic is complete and that the holomorph of a centerless perfect Lie algebra is complete if and only if its outer derivation algebra is centerless. Key works: Derivation, complete Lie algebra, holomorph of Lie algebra Mathematics Subject Classification (1991):...

We prove that every finitely generated Lie algebra containing a nilpotent ideal of class c and finite codimension n has Gelfand-Kirillov dimension at most cn. In particular, finitely generated virtually nilpotent Lie algebras have polynomial growth.

It is an initially surprising fact how much of the geometry and arithmetic of Shimura varieties (e.g., moduli spaces of abelian varieties) is governed by the theory of linear algebraic groups. This is in some sense unfortunate, because the theory of algebraic groups (even over the complex numbers, and still more over a nonalgebraically closed field like Q) is rich and complicated, containing fo...

Let Θ be an arbitrary variety of algebras and let Θ0 be the category of all free finitely generated algebras from Θ. We study automorphisms of such categories for special Θ. The cases of the varieties of all groups, all semigroups, all modules over a noetherian ring, all associative and commutative algebras over a field are completely investigated. The cases of associative and Lie algebras are ...