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Fractal just infinite nil Lie superalgebra of finite width

Rings and Algebras 2018-02-13 v3

Abstract

The Grigorchuk and Gupta-Sidki groups play fundamental role in modern group theory. Their natural analogues are self-similar nil Lie pp-algebras. In characteristic zero, similar examples of Lie algebras do not exist (Martinez and Zelmanov). The second author recently constructed a 3-generated self-similar nil finely graded Lie superalgebra, which showed that an extension of Martinez-Zelmanov's result for Lie superalgebras of characteristic zero is not valid. Now, we suggest a more handy example. We construct a 2-generated self-similar Lie superalgebra R\mathbf{R} over arbitrary field. It has a clear monomial basis, unlike many examples studied before, we find a clear monomial basis of its associative hull A\mathbf{A}, the latter has a quadratic growth. The algebras R\mathbf{R} and A\mathbf{A} are Z2\mathbb{Z}^2-graded by multidegree in generators, positions of their Z2\mathbb{Z}^2-components are bounded by pairs of logarithmic curves on plane. The Z2\mathbb{Z}^2-components of R\mathbf{R} are at most one-dimensional, thus, the Z2\mathbb{Z}^2-grading of R\mathbf{R} is fine. As an analogue of periodicity, we establish that homogeneous elements of the grading R=R0ˉR1ˉ\mathbf{R}=\mathbf{R}_{\bar 0}\oplus\mathbf{R}_{\bar 1} are ad\mathrm{ad}-nilpotent. In case of N\mathbb{N}-graded algebras, a close analogue to being simple is being just-infinite. We prove that R\mathbf{R} is just infinite, but not hereditary just infinite. Our example is close to a smallest possible example, because R\mathbf{R} has a linear growth with a growth function γR(m)3m\gamma_\mathbf{R}(m)\approx 3m, mm\to\infty. Moreover, its degree N\mathbb{N}-gradation is of width 4 (charK2\mathrm{char} K\ne 2). In case charK=2\mathrm{char}\, K=2, we obtain a Lie algebra of width 2 that is not thin. Our example also shows that an extension of the result of Martinez and Zelmanov for Lie superalgebras of characteristic zero is not valid.

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@article{arxiv.1707.06614,
  title  = {Fractal just infinite nil Lie superalgebra of finite width},
  author = {Otto Augusto de Morais Costa and Victor Petrogradsky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06614},
  year   = {2018}
}