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Restricted Lazard elimination and modular Lie powers

Part of: Representation theory of groups Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Ralph Stöhr
Ralph Stöhr
Affiliation:
Department of MathematicsUMIST, PO Box 88, Manchester M60 1QD, United Kingdom e-mail: r.stohr@umist.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We exhibit a variation of the Lazard Elimination theorem for free restricted Lie algebras, and apply it to two problems about finite group actions on free Lie algebras over fields of positive characteristic.

MSC classification

Secondary: 17B01: Identities, free Lie (super)algebras 20C20: Modular representations and characters
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society , Volume 71 , Issue 2 , October 2001 , pp. 259 - 278
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 2001

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