A comparison of two classifications of solvable Lie algebras

Abstract

The literature contains two different classifications of solvable Lie algebras of dimensions up to and including 4. This paper is devoted to comparing the two classifications and translating each into the other. In particular, we exhibit an isomorphism between each solvable Lie algebra of one classification and the corresponding algebra of the second. The first classification is provided by de Graaf, and the second classification is from a recent book by Šnobl and Winternitz.