Lie algebra deformations in characteristic $2$

Abstract

Of four types of Kaplansky algebras, type-2 and type-4 algebras have previously unobserved Z/2-gradings: nonlinear in roots. A method assigning a simple Lie superalgebra to every Z/2-graded simple Lie algebra in characteristic 2 is illustrated by seven new series. Type-2 algebras and one of the two type-4 algebras are demystified as nontrivial deforms (the results of deformations) of the alternate Hamiltonian algebras. The type-1 Kaplansky algebra is recognized as the derived of the nonalternate version of the Hamiltonian Lie algebra, the one that preserves a tensorial 2-form.