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The orders of nonsingular derivations of modular Lie algebras

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We extend the results of Shalev [Sh] on the orders of nonsingular derivations of finite-dimensional non-nilpotent modular Lie algebras.

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  1. Dipartimento di Matematica, Università degli Studi di Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38050, Povo (Trento), Italy

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The author is grateful to Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica, Italy, for financial support to the project “Graded Lie algebras and pro-p-groups of finite width”.

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Mattarei, S. The orders of nonsingular derivations of modular Lie algebras. Isr. J. Math. 132, 265–275 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02784516

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