Abstract
We study sympathetic (i.e., perfect and complete) Lie algebras. Among other topics they arise in the study of adjoint Lie algebra cohomology. Here a motivation comes from a conjecture of Pirashvili, which says that a finite-dimensional complex perfect Lie algebra is semisimple if and only if its adjoint cohomology vanishes. We prove several general results for sympathetic Lie algebras and for the adjoint Lie algebra cohomology of arbitrary finite-dimensional Lie algebras in characteristic zero using a result of Hochschild and Serre. Moreover, for certain semidirect products we obtain explicit results for the adjoint cohomology.
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