Outer derivation of a nilpotent Lie algebra

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Every nonzero finite-dimensional nilpotent Lie algebra over a field of characteristic zero has a derivation outside its adjoint image. This remains true for characteristically nilpotent Lie algebras: all their derivations may be nilpotent, but they cannot all be inner.

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