Subalgebra generated by ad-locally nilpotent elements of Borcherds Generalized Kac-Moody Lie algebras

Abstract

We determine the Lie subalgebra ${\mathfrak{g}}_{nil}$ of a Borcherds symmetrizable generalized Kac-Moody Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ generated by $ad$-locally nilpotent elements and show that it is `essentially' the same as the Levi subalgebra of $\mathfrak{g}$ with its simple roots precisely the real simple roots of $\mathfrak{g}$.

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