Mal’cev showed in the 1950s that there is a correspondence between radicable torsion-free nilpotent groups and rational nilpotent Lie algebras. In this paper we show how to establish the connection between the radicable hull of a finitely generated torsion-free nilpotent group and its corresponding Lie algebra algorithmically. We apply it to fast multiplication of elements of polycyclically pre...

Let G be a connected, linear semisimple Lie group with Lie algebra g, and let KC → Aut(pC ) be the complexified isotropy representation at the identity coset of the corresponding symmetric space. The Kostant-Sekiguchi correspondence is a bijection between the nilpotent KC -orbits in pC and the nilpotent G-orbits in g. We show that this correspondence associates each spherical nilpotent KC -orbi...

We prove that any Novikov algebra over a field of characteristic [Formula: see text] is Lie-solvable if and only its commutator ideal right nilpotent. also construct examples infinite-dimensional algebras with non-nilpotent text].

In this paper we study the automorphism group of solvable complete Lie algebra whose nilpotent radical is a quasi Heisenberg algebra. AMS Classification: 17B05; 17B30

Let G be a classical group and let g be its Lie algebra. For a nilpotent element X E g, the ring R(Ox) of regular functions on the nilpotent orbit Ox is a Gmodule. In this thesis, we will decompose it into irreducible representations of G for some spherical nilpotent orbits. Thesis Supervisor: David Alexander Vogan Title: Professor of Mathematics

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.

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 give a new characterization of Lusztig’s canonical quotient, a finite group attached to each special nilpotent orbit of a complex semisimple Lie algebra. This group plays an important role in the classification of unipotent representations of finite groups of Lie type. We also define a duality map. To each pair of a nilpotent orbit and a conjugacy class in its fundamental group, the map assi...

Let X be an F -rational nilpotent element in the Lie algebra of a connected and reductive group G defined over the ground field F . Suppose that the Lie algebra has a non-degenerate invariant bilinear form. We show that the unipotent radical of the centralizer of X is F -split. This property has several consequences. When F is complete with respect to a discrete valuation with either finite or ...

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...