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Wildness of the problem of classifying nilpotent Lie algebras of vector fields in four variables

Rings and Algebras 2018-03-28 v1

Abstract

Let F\mathbb F be a field F\mathbb F of characteristic zero. Let Wn(F)W_{n}(\mathbb F) be the Lie algebra of all F\mathbb F-derivations with the Lie bracket [D1,D2]:=D1D2D2D1[D_1, D_2]:=D_1D_2-D_2D_1 on the polynomial ring F[x1,,xn]\mathbb F [x_1, \ldots , x_n]. The problem of classifying finite dimensional subalgebras of Wn(F)W_{n}(\mathbb F) was solved if n2 n\leq 2 and F=C\mathbb F=\mathbb C or F=R.\mathbb F=\mathbb R. We prove that this problem is wild if n4n\geq 4, which means that it contains the classical unsolved problem of classifying matrix pairs up to similarity. The structure of finite dimensional subalgebras of Wn(F)W_{n}(\mathbb F) is interesting since each derivation in case F=R\mathbb F=\mathbb R can be considered as a vector field with polynomial coefficients on the manifold Rn.\mathbb R^{n}.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09772,
  title  = {Wildness of the problem of classifying nilpotent Lie algebras of vector fields in four variables},
  author = {V. M. Bondarenko and A. P. Petravchuk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09772},
  year   = {2018}
}