Biderivations of complete Lie algebras

Abstract

The authors of this article intend to present some results obtained in the study of biderivations of complete Lie algebras. Firstly they present a matricial approach to do this, which was a useful and explanatory tool not only in the study of biderivations but also in the synthesis of these results. Then they study all biderivations of a Lie algebra [Formula: see text] with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], called complete. Moreover, as an application of the previous result, they describe all biderivations of a semisimple Lie algebra (that are complete), extending a result obtained by Tang in [X. Tang, Biderivations of finite-dimensional complex simple Lie algebras, Linear Multilinear Algebra 66(2) (2018) 250–259] that describes all biderivations of a complex simple Lie algebra. And thirdly, results on symmetric and skew-symmetric biderivations are also presented.