%0 Journal Article %A Ancochea Bermúdez, José María %A Campoamor-Stursberg, Rutwig %T Sympletic forms and products by generators %D 2002 %@ 0092-7872 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58399 %X We introduce the product by generators of two nilpotent Liealgebras as a central extension of the direct sum and analyze symplectic structures on them. We show that, up to few exceptions, these products do not admit symplectic forms. Besides a general criterion, we indicate a procedure to construct symplectic forms in natural manner on quotient Lie algebras of certain products by generators. %~