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KAC-Moody Lie Algebras and the Classification of Nilpotent Lie Algebras of Maximal Rank
Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 34 (1982) no. 6, pp. 1215-1239

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Introduction. The natural problem of determining all the Lie algebras of finite dimension was broken in two parts by Levi's theorem:1) the classification of semi-simple Lie algebras (achieved by Killing and Cartan around 1890)2) the classification of solvable Lie algebras (reduced to the classification of nilpotent Lie algebras by Malcev in 1945 (see [10])).The Killing form is identically equal to zero for a nilpotent Lie algebra but it is non-degenerate for a semi-simple Lie algebra. Therefore there was a huge gap between those two extreme cases. But this gap is only illusory because, as we will prove in this work, a large class of nilpotent Lie algebras is closely related to the Kac-Moody Lie algebras. These last algebras could be viewed as infinite dimensional version of the semisimple Lie algebras. 
Santharoubane, L. J. KAC-Moody Lie Algebras and the Classification of Nilpotent Lie Algebras of Maximal Rank. Canadian journal of mathematics, Tome 34 (1982) no. 6, pp. 1215-1239. doi: 10.4153/CJM-1982-084-5
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