The classification of the simple modular Lie algebras: VI. Solving the final case (Q4211067)

This is the last in a series of papers completing the classification of the finite-dimensional simple Lie algebras over an algebraically closed field of characteristic \(p>7\). The corresponding classification for restricted simple Lie algebras was accomplished by \textit{R. E. Block} and \textit{R. L. Wilson} [J. Algebra 114, 115-259 (1988; Zbl 0644.17008)], who showed that all such algebras are of either classical or Cartan type. The author and \textit{R. L. Wilson} announced in [Bull. Am. Math. Soc. 24, 357-362 (1991; Zbl 0725.17023)] that Lie algebras of these two types are still the only simple ones when the condition of restrictedness is removed, which is the result whose proof is completed in this paper. In the earlier papers in the series the author divided the proof into the consideration of four cases and made the classification in three of them. The final case, considered here, occurs when every 1-section with respect to a torus of maximal absolute toral rank in a \(p\)-envelope of the algebra is solvable. The classification of such algebras with absolute toral rank 3 plays a crucial role in the general classification, and much of the proof is achieved by modifying proofs in the paper by Block and Wilson mentioned above.