Non-solvable contractions of semisimple Lie algebras in low dimension

The problem of non-solvable contractions of Lie algebras is analyzed. By means of a stability theorem, the problem is shown to be deeply related to the embeddings among semisimple Lie algebras and the resulting branching rules for representations. With this procedure, we determine all deformations o...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Campoamor Stursberg, Otto-Rudwig
Format: article
Publication Date:2007
Country:España
Institution:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repository:Docta Complutense
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/50649
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50649
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:512.554.3
Lie algebra
Contraction
Deformation
Levi decomposition
Álgebra
1201 Álgebra
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Summary:The problem of non-solvable contractions of Lie algebras is analyzed. By means of a stability theorem, the problem is shown to be deeply related to the embeddings among semisimple Lie algebras and the resulting branching rules for representations. With this procedure, we determine all deformations of indecomposable Lie algebras having a nontrivial Levi decomposition onto semisimple Lie algebras of dimension n ≤ 8, and obtain the non-solvable contractions of the latter class of algebras