Structure of divergence-free Lie algebras (Q5949397)

One of the four well-known series of simple Lie algebras of Cartan type is the series of Lie algebras of special type, which are divergence-free Lie algebras associated with polynomial algebras and the operators of taking partial derivatives, connected with volume-preserving diffeomorphisms. The second author [Introduction to vertex operator superalgebras and their modules, Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht (1998; Zbl 0929.17030)] introduced a natural class of nongraded generalizations of the Lie algebras of special type, which associated with pairs of a commutative associative algebra an identity element and its finite-dimensional commutative locally finite derivation subalgebra such that the commutative associative algebra is derivation-simple with respect to the derivation subalgebra. In this paper, the authors determine the isomorphism classes and the structure of these Lie algebras.