On simplicity of certain infinite dimensional Lie algebras

Kac, V. G.

doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14746-1

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Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 311-314

References

V. G. Kac, Simple irreducible graded Lie algebras of finite growth, Izv. Akad. Nauk SSSR Ser. Mat. 32 (1968), 1323–1367 (Russian). MR 0259961
V. G. Kac, Infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, and the Dedekind $\eta$-function, Funkcional. Anal. i Priložen. 8 (1974), no. 1, 77–78 (Russian). MR 0374210
V. G. Kac, Infinite-dimensional algebras, Dedekind’s $\eta$-function, classical Möbius function and the very strange formula, Adv. in Math. 30 (1978), no. 2, 85–136. MR 513845, DOI 10.1016/0001-8708(78)90033-6
V. G. Kac and D. A. Kazhdan, Structure of representations with highest weight of infinite-dimensional Lie algebras, Adv. in Math. 34 (1979), no. 1, 97–108. MR 547842, DOI 10.1016/0001-8708(79)90066-5
Nathan Jacobson, Lie algebras, Interscience Tracts in Pure and Applied Mathematics, No. 10, Interscience Publishers (a division of John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), New York-London, 1962. MR 0143793

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Journal: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 2 (1980), 311-314
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-1980-14746-1
MathSciNet review: 555269