Locally finite simple Lie algebras (Q2266058)

The concepts of weakly ascendant subalgebras and weakly serial subalgebras are compared in locally finite Lie algebras. In particular, if the algebra L is also non-Abelian, then L has no non-trivial weakly ascendant subalgebras if and only if L has no non-trivial weakly serial subalgebras. Under the same hypothesis, these conditions are equivalent to the simplicity of L coupled with the absence of non-zero left Engel elements. Of interest also is an example of a locally finite simple infinite-dimensional Lie algebra \(L=\cup^{\infty}_{n=2}s\ell (n)\) where \(s\ell (n)\) is naturally embedded in \(s\ell (n+1)\).