Classifying the Absolute Toral Rank Two Case: Edition 2

This is the second part of a three-volume book about the classification of the simple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields of characteristic > 3. The first volume contains the methods, examples and a first classification result. This second volume presents insight in the structure of tori of Hamiltonian and Melikian algebras. Based on sandwich element methods due to A. I. Kostrikin and A. A. Premet and the investigations of filtered and graded Lie algebras, a complete proof for the classification of absolute toral rank 2 simple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields of characteristic > 3 is given.

Contents

Tori in Hamiltonian and Melikian algebras
1-sections
Sandwich elements and rigid tori
Towards graded algebras
The toral rank 2 case