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The five exceptional simple Lie superalgebras of vector fields and their fourteen regradings

Author(s): Irina Shchepochkina
Journal: Represent. Theory 3 (1999), 373-415.
MSC (1991): Primary 17A70; Secondary 17B35
Posted: October 13, 1999
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Abstract: The five simple exceptional complex Lie superalgebras of vector fields are described. One of them, ${\mathfrak{k}}{\mathfrak{as}}$, is new; the other four are explicitly described for the first time. All nonisomorphic maximal subalgebras of finite codimension of these Lie superalgebras, i.e., all other realizations of these Lie superalgebras as Lie superalgebras of vector fields, are also described; there are 14 of them altogether. All of the exceptional Lie superalgebras are obtained with the help of the Cartan prolongation or a generalized prolongation.


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Irina Shchepochkina
Affiliation: On leave of absence from the Independent University of Moscow - {\it Correspondence}: \rm c/o D. Leites, Department of Mathematics, University of Stockholm, Roslagsv. 101, Kräftriket hus 6, S-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Email: mleites@matematik.su.se, lra@paramonova,mccme.ru

DOI: 10.1090/S1088-4165-99-00012-6
PII: S 1088-4165(99)00012-6
Keywords: Lie superalgebra, Cartan prolongation, spinor representation
Posted: October 13, 1999
Additional Notes: I am thankful to D. Leites for raising the problem and help; to INTAS grant 96-0538 and NFR for financial support; University of Twente and Stockholm University for hospitality. Computer experiments by G. Post and P. Grozman encouraged me to carry on with unbearable calculations.
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