Central extensions and invariant forms of Cartan type Lie algebras of positive characteristic (Q1061207)

Let \(L\) be a Lie algebra over a field p of characteristic \(p>0\). The author gives the description of such Lie algebras, for which the Killing form has nondegenerate invariant form (Theorem 1). This result is used for the computation of the cohomology space \(H^ 2(L;P)\). With the help of this Theorem 2 gives a description of the nontrivial central extensions of Cartan type simple Lie algebras over a field of characteristic \(p\geq 3\).