Borel subalgebras of restricted Cartan-Type Lie algebras

Abstract

It is still an open problem to determine the conjugacy classes of Borel subalgebras of non-classical type Lie algebras. In this paper, we prove that there are at least 2 conjugacy classes of Borel subalgebras as well as maximal triangulable subalgebras of restricted Cartan type Lie algebras of type W, S and H. We are particularly interested in maximal triangulable subalgebras of [Formula: see text] under some conditions which is called [Formula: see text]-subalgebras (Definition 3.1). We classify the conjugacy classes of [Formula: see text]-subalgebras for [Formula: see text] and determine their representatives. This paper and its sequel [Z. Lin, K. Ou and B. Shu, Geometric Setting of Jacobson–Witt Algebras, preprint] attempt to establish both algebraic and geometric setting for geometric representation theory of [Formula: see text]