%0 Journal Article %A Campoamor Stursberg, Otto-Rudwig %T Some comments on contractions of Lie algebras %D 2008 %@ 1313-1311 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/50615 %X We prove that two of the counterexamples of contractions inequivalent to a generalized Inönü-Wigner contraction exhibited in [1] are incorrect. An alternative characterization of general contractions is proposed %~