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Automorphisms of the Lie Algebras W* in Characteristic 0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. Marshall Osborn*
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA 53706 e-mail: osborn@math.wisc.edu
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In a recent paper [2] we defined four classes of infinite dimensional simple Lie algebras over a field of characteristic 0 which we called W*, S*, H*, and K*. As the names suggest, these classes generalize the Lie algebras of Cartan type. A second paper [3] investigates the derivations of the algebras W* and S*, and the possible isomorphisms between these algebras and the algebras defined by Block [1]. In the present paper we investigate the automorphisms of the algebras of type W*.

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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1997

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