The structure of a solvable Lie groups admitting an Einstein left-invariant metric is, in a sense, completely determined by the nilradical of its Lie algebra. We give an easy-to-check necessary and sufficient condition for a nilpotent algebra to be an Einstein nilradical whose Einstein derivation has simple eigenvalues. As an application, we classify filiform Einstein nilradicals (modulo known ...

In the present paper we study generalized left derivations on Lie ideals of rings with involution. Some of our results extend other ones proven previously just for the action of generalized left derivations on the whole ring. Furthermore, we prove that every generalized Jordan left derivation on a 2-torsion free ∗-prime ring with involution is a generalized left derivation.

We study quadratic Lie algebras over a field K of null characteristic which admit, at the same time, a symplectic structure. We see that if K is algebraically closed every such Lie algebra may be constructed as the T∗-extension of a nilpotent algebra admitting an invertible derivation and also as the double extension of another quadratic symplectic Lie algebra by the one-dimensional Lie algebra...

Abstract. Classical contact Lie algebras are the fundamental algebraic structures on the manifolds of contact elements of configuration spaces in classical mechanics. Xu introduced a large category of contact simple Lie algebras which are related to locally finite derivations and are in general not finitely graded. The isomorphism classes of these Lie algebras were determined in a previous pape...

Contractions of Lie algebras are combined with the classical matrix method of Gel’fand to obtain matrix formulae for the Casimir operators of inhomogeneous Lie algebras. The method is presented for the inhomogeneous pseudounitary Lie algebras Iu(p, q). This procedure is extended to contractions of Iu(p, q) isomorphic to an extension by a derivation of the inhomogeneous special pseudo-unitary Li...