The variety of Lie algebras of maximal class (Q1048454)

An \(n\)-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra is called filiform if its nilpotency class is \(n-1\). \textit{M. Vergne} [Bull. Soc. Math. Fr. 98, 81--116 (1970; Zbl 0244.17011)] constructed the first known examples of filiform Lie algebras \(\mathfrak m_{0}(n)\). Vergne showed that an arbitrary filiform Lie algebra is isomorphic to a certain deformation of \(\mathfrak m_{0}(n)\) by a cocycle in the second cohomology of \(\mathfrak m_{0}(n)\) with coefficients in the adjoint representation of \(\mathfrak m_{0}(n)\). Furthermore, Vergne proved that any finite-dimensional \(\mathbb N\)-graded filiform Lie algebra is isomorphic to either \(\mathfrak m_{0}(2r)\) or \(\mathfrak m_{1}(2s+1)\), for some numbers \(r,s\), where the the structure constants of \(\mathfrak m_{0}(2r)\) and \(\mathfrak m_{1}(2s+1)\) are given. Let \(\mathfrak m_{0}\) denote the direct limit of the Lie algebras \(\mathfrak m_{0}(n)\). It turns out that \(\mathfrak m_{0}\) is an \(\mathbb N\)-graded Lie algebra of maximal class (coclass 1). The paper under review describes all infinite-dimensional Lie algebras of maximal class in terms of deformations of \(\mathfrak m_{0}\) by certain cocycles in the second cohomology of \(\mathfrak m_{0}\) with coefficients in the adjoint representation of \(\mathfrak m_{0}\).