A complete description of solvable symplectic Lie algebras

Abstract

In this paper, we present a complete characterization of solvable symplectic Lie algebras via a symplectic double extension process. We demonstrate that any such algebra is either symplectically irreducible or can be constructed through a finite sequence of symplectic double extensions by a line or a plane, starting from symplectically irreducible Lie algebras. Furthermore, we show that if a symplectic Lie algebra has a nondegenerate derived ideal, then it is necessarily unimodular and, in particular, solvable. Finally, we present a novel algebraic proof of a classical structural theorem on symplectically irreducible symplectic Lie algebras and classify all Lie algebras of dimension up to $6$ that admit such structures.