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Primeness of the enveloping algebra of a Cartan type Lie superalgebra

Author(s): Mark Curtis Wilson
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 124 (1996), 383-387.
MSC (1991): Primary 17A70; Secondary 17B35
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Abstract: We show that a primeness criterion for enveloping algebras of Lie superalgebras discovered by Bell is applicable to the Cartan type Lie superalgebras $W(n)$, $n$ even. Other algebras are considered but there are no definitive answers in these cases.


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Ellen Kirkman and James Kuzmanovich, Minimal prime ideals in enveloping algebras of Lie superalgebras, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. (to appear).
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M. Scheunert, The theory of Lie superalgebras, Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 716, Springer, Berlin, 1979. MR 80i:17005
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Mark Curtis Wilson
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, 480 Lincoln Drive, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1388
Address at time of publication: Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand
Email: wilson@math.auckland.ac.nz

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-96-03111-5
PII: S 0002-9939(96)03111-5
Keywords: $W(n)$, Cartan type Lie superalgebra, prime enveloping algebra
Received by editor(s): July 28, 1994
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 31, 1994
Additional Notes: Research supported by the NSF through grant DMS-9224662
The material in this paper will be included in the author's Ph.D. thesis
Communicated by: Ken Goodearl
Copyright of article: Copyright 1996, American Mathematical Society


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