Prime power order not implies nilpotent for Lie rings

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Statement

There can exist a Lie ring whose order is a power of a prime, but it is not a nilpotent Lie ring.

Related facts

Proof

Let p be a prime. Consider a Lie ring whose additive group is the elementary abelian group of order p2. (alternatively, it is a two-dimensional vector space over the field of p elements), where, for a suitable basis x,y, the Lie bracket satisfies:

[x,y]=x.

This satisfies all the conditions for a Lie bracket, but it is not nilpotent, because the iterate Lie bracket [[[[x,y]],y] equals x and never becomes zero.