We study in this paper the infinite-dimensional orthogonal Lie algebra OC which consists of all bounded linear operators T on a separable, infinite-dimensional, complex Hilbert space H satisfying CTC=−T⁎, where C is a conjugation on H. By employing results from the theory of complex symmetric operators and skew-symmetric operators, we determine the Lie ideals of OC and their dual spaces. We study derivations of OC and determine their spectra. These results complete some results of P. de la Harpe and provide interesting contrasts between OC and the algebra B(H) of all bounded linear operators on H.
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