The purpose of this
paper is to describe, under suitable conditions which are always satisfied at
characteristic 0, a close relationship between Cartan subalgebras of a Lie
algebra ℒ and Cartan subalgebras of an ideal ℒ′ of ℒ. Under the conditions
referred to, a mapping α∗ from the set of Cartan subalgebras of ℒ onto
the set of Cartan subalgebras of ℒ′ is described and the fibres of α∗ are
determined.