RESEARCH ARTICLE

Ideals and simplicity of unitary Lie algebras

  • Yelong ZHENG , 1 ,
  • Zhihua CHANG 2 ,
  • Yun GAO 3
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  • 1. School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  • 2. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G1, Canada
  • 3. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, York University, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3, Canada

Received date: 25 May 2011

Accepted date: 19 Jun 2011

Published date: 01 Aug 2011

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2014 Higher Education Press and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

Abstract

Double graded ideals and simplicity of elementary unitary Lie algebra eun(R,-,γ) and Steinberg unitary Lie algebra stun(R,-,γ) are characterized, where R is a unital involutory associative algebra over a field F of characteristic zero, n≥5.

Cite this article

Yelong ZHENG , Zhihua CHANG , Yun GAO . Ideals and simplicity of unitary Lie algebras[J]. Frontiers of Mathematics in China, 2011 , 6(4) : 789 -820 . DOI: 10.1007/s11464-011-0148-3

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