{ "id": "0809.0074", "version": "v1", "published": "2008-08-30T17:03:50.000Z", "updated": "2008-08-30T17:03:50.000Z", "title": "Group algebras of finite groups as Lie algebras", "authors": [ "Ivan Marin" ], "comment": "12 pages", "categories": [ "math.RT", "math.GR" ], "abstract": "We consider the natural Lie algebra structure on the (associative) group algebra of a finite group $G$, and show that the Lie subalgebras associated to natural involutive antiautomorphisms of this group algebra are reductive ones. We give a decomposition in simple factors of these Lie algebras, in terms of the ordinary representations of $G$.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2008-08-30T17:03:50.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "20C15", "17B99" ], "keywords": [ "group algebra", "finite group", "natural lie algebra structure", "ordinary representations", "simple factors" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 12, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2008arXiv0809.0074M" } } }