Karel Dekimpe, "The index of nilpotent Lie algebras"

The index of a Lie algebra is an important invariant which arises in several areas, e.g. in the study of coadjoint orbits for a Lie group, in invariant theory and in representation theory. We study the index for several classes of nilpotent Lie algebras. In particular, we give explicit formulas for free-nilpotent Lie algebras of nilpotency class two and three, or of solvability class two, for graph Lie algebras, and for filiform nilpotent Lie algebras. This is joint work with Dietrich Burde (University of Vienna).