On Kirillov’s lemma and the Benson–Ratcliff invariant
Journal of Mathematical Physics, May 1, 2021
In this paper, we study the conjecture of Benson and Ratcliff, which deals with the class of nilp... more In this paper, we study the conjecture of Benson and Ratcliff, which deals with the class of nilpotent Lie algebras of a one-dimensional center. We show that this conjecture is true for any nilpotent Lie algebra g with dimg≤5, but it fails for the dimensions greater or equal to 6. To this end, we produce counter-examples to the Benson–Ratcliff conjecture in all dimensions n ≥ 6. Finally, we show that this conjecture is true for the class of three-step nilpotent Lie algebras and for some other classes of nilpotent Lie algebras.
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