A geometric characterization of the symplectic Lie algebra

DOI10.2140/IIG.2023.20.223MaRDI QIDQ6060076zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Hans Cuypers, Yael Fleischmann

Publication date 2 November 2023

Published in Innovations in Incidence Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.02095

zbMATH Keywords

buildingsextremal elementsLie algebrassymplectic geometries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Rings with involution; Lie, Jordan and other nonassociative structures (16W10) Lie (super)algebras associated with other structures (associative, Jordan, etc.) (17B60) Incidence structures embeddable into projective geometries (51A45) Polar geometry, symplectic spaces, orthogonal spaces (51A50) Buildings and the geometry of diagrams (51E24)

Abstract: A nonzero element $x$ in a Lie algebra $mathfrakg$ with Lie product $[,]$ is called extremal if $[x,[x,y]]$ is a multiple of $x$ for all $y$. In this paper we characterize the (finitary) symplectic Lie algebras as simple Lie algebras generated by their extremal elements satisying the condition that any two noncommuting extremal elements $x,y$ generate an $mathfrak{sl}_2$ and any third extremal element $z$ commutes with at least one extremal element in this $mathfrak{sl}_2$.

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