  Deformations of the Lie algebras so(4), so(3,1), and e(3) that leave their
so(3) subalgebra undeformed and preserve their coset structure are considered.
It is shown that such deformed algebras are associative for any choice of the
deformation parameters. Their Casimir operators are obtained and some of their
unitary irreducible representations are constructed. For vanishing deformation,
the latter go over into those of the corresponding Lie algebras that contain
each of the so(3) unitary irreducible representations at most once. It is also
proved that similar deformations of the Lie algebras su(3), sl(3,R), and of the
semidirect sum of an abelian algebra t(5) and so(3) do not lead to associative
algebras.
