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Faithful completely reducible representations of modular Lie algebras

Rings and Algebras 2016-05-20 v2

Abstract

The Ado-Iwasawa Theorem asserts that a finite-dimensional Lie algebra LL over a field FF has a finite-dimensional faithful module VV. There are several extensions asserting the existence of such a module with various additional properties. In particular, Jacobson has proved that if the field has characteristic p>0p>0, then there exists a completely reducible such module VV. I strengthen Jacobson's Theorem, proving that if LL has dimension nn over the field FF of characteristic p>0p>0, then LL has a faithful completely reducible module VV with dim(V)pn21\dim(V) \le p^{n^2-1}.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01894,
  title  = {Faithful completely reducible representations of modular Lie algebras},
  author = {Donald W. Barnes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01894},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages. Corrects typos, expands explanations in version 1