Let 𝕂 be an algebraically closed field with characteristic zero and let V be a module over the polynomial ring 𝕂[x, y]. The actions of x and y specify linear operators P and Q on V regarded as a vector space over 𝕂. We define the Lie algebra L V = 𝕂〈P, Q〉 λ V as the semidirect product of two Abelian Lie algebras with the natural action of 𝕂〈P, Q〉 on V. It is shown that if 𝕂[x, y]-modules V and W are isomorphic or weakly isomorphic, then the corresponding associated Lie algebras L V and L W are isomorphic. The converse assertion is not true: we can construct two 𝕂[x, y]-modules V and W of dimension 4 that are not weakly isomorphic but their associated Lie algebras are isomorphic. We present the characterization of these pairs of 𝕂[x, y]-modules of arbitrary dimension over 𝕂. It is shown that the indecomposable modules V and W with dim𝕂 V = dim𝕂 W ≥ 7 are weakly isomorphic if and only if their associated Lie algebras L V and L W are isomorphic.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 69, No. 9, pp. 1232–1241, September, 2017.
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Petravchuk, A.P., Sysak, K.Y. Lie Algebras Associated with Modules over Polynomial Rings. Ukr Math J 69, 1433–1444 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-018-1442-y
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