PRIMENESS OF THE ENVELOPING ALGEBRA OF A CARTAN TYPE LIE SUPERALGEBRA

Authors
Citation
Mc. Wilson, PRIMENESS OF THE ENVELOPING ALGEBRA OF A CARTAN TYPE LIE SUPERALGEBRA, Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 124(2), 1996, pp. 383-387
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Mathematics, General",Mathematics,Mathematics
ISSN journal
00029939
Volume
124
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
383 - 387
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9939(1996)124:2<383:POTEAO>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
We show that a primeness criterion for enveloping algebras of Lie supe ralgebras discovered by Bell is applicable to the Cartan type Lie supe ralgebras W(n), n even. Other algebras are considered but there are no definitive answers in these cases.