Formal deformations, contractions and moduli spaces of Lie algebras

Abstract: Jump deformations and contractions of Lie algebras are inverse concepts, but the approaches to their computations are quite different. In this paper, we contrast the two approaches, showing how to compute jump deformations from the miniversal deformation of a Lie algebra, and thus arrive at the contractions. We also compute contractions directly. We use the moduli spaces of real 3-dimensional and complex 3 and 4-dimensional Lie algebras as models for explaining a deformation theory approach to computation of contractions.

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The authors present their studies on deformations of 3- and 4-dimensional complex Lie algebras with emphasis on contractions (which are inverse jump deformations). They also study the 3-dimensional real case which they have not done before. It is not easy to evaluate their results, especially since they do not compare them with the existing literature [e.g. \textit{M. Nesterenko} and \textit{R. Popovych}, J. Math. Phys. 47, No. 12, 123515 (2006; Zbl 1112.17007), their reference 13). Some of the obvious mistakes are the following. 1. In the introduction the authors claim to give ``a complete description of the contractions of all 4-dimensional complex Lie algebras. However their list is incomplete (see 2 below). 2. The authors claim on p. 569 ``As illustrated by the example, given a finite dimensional Lie algebra, there are only a finite number of Lie algebras which can arise as contractions of the Lie algebra. Not only is their reasoning wrong, already in 4 dimensions one can contract into a family (these contractions are missing from their list but are given in their reference 13). 3. Conatser did not compute in 1972 all ``contractions of the 3-dim. simple (sic.!) Lie algebras (see p. 574), but the proper subset of all simple IW-contractions of all 3-dimensional real Lie algebras. The reviewer determined all contractions in 1991. 4. The authors state as Theorem 3.2 the reviewer's result that all contractions are equivalent to generalized IW-contractions and use it in their proof of transitivity of jump deformations. 6 months before the submission date of this paper the reviewer informed one of the authors that the proof of this theorem was wrong, and that their reference 13 claims to have found counter-examples.

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