Deformations of classical Lie algebras of characteristic three (Q1363846)

The deformations of a simple Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field are, roughly, the families of simple Lie algebras obtained by a change of structural constants parametrized by points of a connected smooth manifold. It is known that a classical Lie algebra is rigid, i.e., the deformations are isomorphic to itself, when the characteristic is 0 or greater than 3. However, when the characteristic is 3, the classical Lie algebra of type \(C_2\) is not rigid. In the article under review, all isomorphism classes of simple Lie algebras of characteristic 3 that can be obtained by the deformation of \(C_2\) are described. They are the \(L(\varepsilon)\) \((\varepsilon\neq 0)\) constructed in [\textit{G. Brown}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 137, 259-268 (1969; Zbl 0176.30902)] and \(L(-1,-1)\) in [\textit{A. I. Kostrikin}, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR, Ser. Mat. 34, 744-756 (1970; Zbl 0245.17008)].