Commutators in classical Lie algebras

DOI10.1016/0024-3795(90)90258-EMaRDI QIDQ750582zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Ralf Hirschbühl

Publication date 1990

Published in Linear Algebra and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0024-3795(90)90258-E

zbMATH Keywords

additive commutatoralgorithmseven orthogonal Lie algebraslower boundsnumber of elements in the fieldodd orthogonal Lie algebrasspecial linear Lie algebrassymplectic Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hermitian, skew-Hermitian, and related matrices (15B57) Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05) Simple, semisimple, reductive (super)algebras (17B20)

Review text

The author shows that if a field K has enough elements or if its characteristic is suitably restricted, then for a given element A of a perfect classical Lie algebra \({\mathcal L}\) it is possible to compute in polynomial time X,Y\(\in {\mathcal L}\) such that \(A=[X,Y]\). For these algebras his results differ from those of the reviewer [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 14, 763-767 (1963; Zbl 0135.073)] by giving, in most cases, a better lower bound for the number of elements in K, and employing a matrix-theoretical proof from which algorithms for the computation of X and Y can be derived.

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