Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-lie-algebras-and-representation-theory-of-symmetric-groups-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/1/c/i/solution

Let be the two-dimensional affine Lie algebra with basis and bracket , and put
Both factors have zero centre, so . The line in the second factor is an ideal, making PSS. But its quotient onto the nonabelian simple algebra is not soluble. A quotient of a soluble algebra would be soluble, so is not soluble.

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