Weakly Noetherian Lie Algebra and the Sierra-Walton Conjecture

Abstract

Let K be a field of characteristic zero. Motivated by the conjecture that an enveloping algebra U(g) is Noetherian only if g is finite dimensional, we define the notion of weakly Noetherian Lie algebras. The main result, Theorem A, states that weakly Noetherian Lie algebras have a very constrained structure. In the specific case of graded Lie algebras, it implies an explicit classification of the perfect strictly weakly Noetherian Lie algebras, stated in Theorem B. The proofs of both theorems are quite long, and uses concrete results due to Tits, Formanek, Razmyslov, Grabowski and the author. The first theorem provides some insight on the desired conjecture. The second one implies the conjecture for all perfect graded Lie algebras, improving a celebrated theorem of Sierra and Walton.