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Simple Quotients of Euclidean Lie Algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Robert V. Moody
Robert V. Moody*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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In [2], we considered a class of Lie algebras generalizing the classical simple Lie algebras. Using a field Φ of characteristic zero and a square matrix (Aij) of integers with the properties (1) Aii = 2, (2) Aij ≦ 0 if i ≠ j, (3) Aij = 0 if and only if Ajt = 0, and (4) is symmetric for some appropriate non-zero rational a Lie algebra E = E((Aij)) over Φ can be constructed, together with the usual accoutrements: a root system, invariant bilinear form, and Weyl group.

For indecomposable (A ij), E is simple except when (Aij) is singular and removal of any row and corresponding column of (Aij) leaves a Cartan matrix. The non-simple Es, Euclidean Lie algebras, were our object of study in [3] as well as in the present paper. They are infinite-dimensional, have ascending chain condition on ideals, and proper ideals are of finite codimension.

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Research Article
Information
Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , 01 August 1970 , pp. 839 - 846
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1970

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