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Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

1999

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Lie Algebras Of Cohomological Codimension One, Grant F. Armstrong, Grant Cairns, Gunky Kim Jan 1999

Lie Algebras Of Cohomological Codimension One, Grant F. Armstrong, Grant Cairns, Gunky Kim

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

We show that if g is a finite dimensional real Lie algebra, then g has cohomological dimension cd(g) = dim(g) - 1 if and only if g is a unimodular extension of the two-dimensional non-Abelian Lie algebra aff.