Quotients of maximal class of thin lie algebras. the odd characteristic case (Q4934101)

A graded Lie algebra \(L=\sum_{i\geq 1}L_i\) over a field \(F\) of positive characteristic is said to be thin if \(\dim_F(L_1)=2\), and for each \(i\geq 1\) and \(0\not=z\in L_i\) one has \([z,L_{1}]=L_{i+1}\). This is one of several possible narrowness conditions which generalize the notion of graded Lie algebra of maximal class. These conditions are, in turn, motivated by analogous conditions on \(p\)-groups and pro-\(p\) groups. An example of thin pro-\(p\) group which has attracted much interest is the Nottingham group, see e.g. [\textit{R. Camina}, J. Algebra 196, 101-113 (1997; Zbl 0883.20015)]. It is known, essentially from N. Blackburn's theory of \(p\)-groups of maximal class, that any quotient of maximal class of the graded Lie algebra associated with the lower central series of an infinite thin pro-\(p\) group is necessarily metabelian. This is not obviously so for thin Lie algebras not coming from groups. In the paper under review the authors show that the same holds for any infinite-dimensional thin Lie algebra, provided that the underlying field has odd characteristic. This is not so for characteristic two, and that case is dealt with in a paper by the second author [Commun. Algebra 27, 5749-5789 (1999; Zbl 0940.17014)].