A Riemannian Einstein solvmanifold (possibly, any noncompact homogeneous Einstein space) is almost completely determined by the nilradical of its Lie algebra. A nilpotent Lie algebra, which can serve as the nilradical of an Einstein metric solvable Lie algebra, is called an Einstein nilradical. Despite a substantial progress towards the understanding of Einstein nilradicals, there is still a la...

Every affine structure on Lie algebra g defines a representation of g in aff(Rn). If g is a nilpotent Lie algebra provided with a complete affine structure then the corresponding representation is nilpotent. We describe noncomplete affine structures on the filiform Lie algebra Ln. As a consequence we give a nonnilpotent faithful linear representation of the 3-dimensional Heisenberg algebra. 200...

We study the varieties of Lie algebra laws and their subvarieties of nilpotent Lie algebra laws. We classify all degenerations of (almost all) five-step and six-step nilpotent seven-dimensional complex Lie algebras. One of the main tools is the use of trivial and adjoint cohomology of these algebras. In addition, we give some new results on the varieties of complex Lie algebra laws in low dimen...

We give a example of non nilpotent faithful representation of a filiform Lie algebra. This gives one counter-example of the conjecture saying that every affine connection on a filiform Lie group is complete. 1. Affine connection on a nilpotent Lie algebra 1.1. Affine connection on nilpotent Lie algebras. Definition 1. Let g be a n-dimensional Lie algebra over R. It is called affine if there is ...

Let L be a Lie algebra with universal enveloping algebra U(L). We prove that if H is another Lie algebra with the property that U(L) ∼= U(H) then certain invariants of L are inherited by H. For example, we prove that if L is nilpotent then H is nilpotent with the same class as L. We also prove that if L is nilpotent of class at most two then L is isomorphic to H.

Abstract. This paper obtains all solvable 3-Lie algebras with the m-dimensional filiform 3-Lie algebra N (m ≥ 5) as a maximal hypo-nilpotent ideal, and proves that the m-dimensional filiform 3-Lie algebra N can’t be as the nilradical of solvable non-nilpotent 3-Lie algebras. By means of one dimensional extension of Lie algebras to the 3-Lie algebras, we get some classes of solvable Lie algebras...

I show that simple finite vertex algebras are commutative, and that the Lie conformal algebra structure underlying a reduced (= without nilpotent elements) finite vertex algebra is nilpotent.

We study ideals of Novikov algebras and Novikov structures on finite-dimensional Lie algebras. We present the first example of a three-step nilpotent Lie algebra which does not admit a Novikov structure. On the other hand we show that any free three-step nilpotent Lie algebra admits a Novikov structure. We study the existence question also for Lie algebras of triangular matrices. Finally we sho...

We continue the study of the distribution of closed geodesics on nilmanifolds Γ\N , constructed from a simply connected 2-step nilpotent Lie group N with a left invariant metric and a lattice Γ in N . We consider a Lie group N with associated 2-step nilpotent Lie algebra N constructed from an irreducible representation of a compact semisimple Lie algebra g0 on a real finite dimensional vector s...