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Lie algebras of cohomological codimension one

Author(s): Grant F. Armstrong; Grant Cairns; Gunky Kim
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 127 (1999), 709-714.
MSC (1991): Primary 17B56
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Abstract: We show that if $\mathfrak{g}$ is a finite dimensional real Lie algebra, then $\mathfrak{g}$ has cohomological dimension $cd(\mathfrak{g})=\dim (\mathfrak{g})-1$ if and only if $\mathfrak{g}$ is a unimodular extension of the two-dimensional non-Abelian Lie algebra $\mathfrak{aff}$ .

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