Abelian Subalgebras and Ideals of Maximal Dimension in Poisson algebras

Abstract

This paper studies the abelian subalgebras and ideals of maximal dimension of Poisson algebras $\mathcal{P}$ of dimension $n$. We introduce the invariants $\alpha$ and $\beta$ for Poisson algebras, which correspond to the dimension of an abelian subalgebra and ideal of maximal dimension, respectively. We prove that these invariants coincide if $\alpha (\mathcal{P})=n-1$. We characterize the Poisson algebras with $\alpha (\mathcal{P})=n-2$ over arbitrary fields. In particular, we characterize Lie algebras $L$ with $\alpha (L)=n-2$. We also show that $\alpha (\mathcal{P})=n-2$ for nilpotent Poisson algebras implies $\beta (\mathcal{P})=n-2$. Finally, we study these invariants for various distinguished Poisson algebras, providing us with several examples and counterexamples.