Texas A&M University, Department of Mathematics, 216 Milner Hall, 4th of March 2009, 3:00-3:50

Groups and Dynamics Seminar


Self-similar Lie algebras

Victor Petrogradsky of Ulyanovsk State University, Russia


We consider examples of self-similar Lie algebras and discuss their properties.The examples were recently constructed by the author, Shestakov, and Zelmanov. In particular, we consider finitely generated restricted Lie algebras of polynomial growth with nil p-mapping. By their properties, these restricted Lie algebras are natural analogues of the Grigorchuk group in the world of Lie algebras.