%0 Journal Article
%T A sufficient condition for a number to be the order of a nonsingular derivation of a Lie algebra
%A Sandro Mattarei
%J Mathematics
%D 2007
%I arXiv
%R 10.1007/s11856-009-0036-7
%X A study of the set N_p of positive integers which occur as orders of nonsingular derivations of finite-dimensional non-nilpotent Lie algebras of characteristic p>0 was initiated by Shalev and continued by the present author. The main goal of this paper is to show the abundance of elements of N_p. Our main result shows that any divisor n of q-1, where q is a power of p, such that $n\ge (p-1)^{1/p} (q-1)^{1-1/(2p)}$, belongs to N_p. This extends its special case for p=2 which was proved in a previous paper by a different method.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.1810v2