Group gradings on finitary simple Lie algebras (Q2909492)

The gradings by arbitrary abelian groups on simple finitary Lie algebras of linear transformations (special linear, orthogonal and symplectic) on infinite dimensional vector spaces over algebraically closed fields of characteristic not two are classified in the paper under review.NEWLINENEWLINEThis is obtained by first dealing with gradings on primitive associative algebras with nonzero socle. Then, functional identities are used to transfer results from the associative to the Lie setting, using that a grading by an abelian group \(G\) of a Lie algebra \({\mathcal L}\) is completely determined by the map \(\rho: {\mathcal L}\rightarrow {\mathcal L}\otimes_{\mathbb F}{\mathbb F}G\) such that \(\rho(x)=x\otimes g\) for any \(x\in {\mathcal L}_g\), and that this map is both a Lie algebra homomorphism and a comodule map. (Conversely, any such map gives a grading by \(G\) on \({\mathcal L}\).)