Representations of compatible Lie algebras

Abstract

We study compatible Lie algebras from algebraic and representation-theoretic points of view, obtaining counterexamples to some fundamental theorems from classical Lie algebra theory, namely the theorems of Lie, Weyl and Levi. We also classify the two-dimensional compatible Lie algebras up to isomorphism and explore their representation theory, presenting families of indecomposable non-semisimple representations, showing that the solvable two-dimensional compatible Lie algebras have wild representation type, and classifying all irreducible finite-dimensional line representations. Finally, we prove a Clebsch-Gordan decomposition for tensor products of finite-dimensional irreducible line representations.