Complex symplectic structures on Lie algebras

We investigate Lie algebras endowed with a complex symplectic structure and develop a method, called complex symplectic oxidation, to construct certain complex symplectic Lie algebras of dimension 4n+4 from those of dimension 4n. We specialize this construction to the nilpotent case and apply complex symplectic oxidation to classify eight-dimensional nilpotent complex symplectic Lie algebras.