| Communications in Mathematics |
Editors: Ivan Kaygorodov & Pasha Zusmanovich
We generalize Knuth's construction of Case I semifields quadratic over a weak nucleus, also known as generalized Dickson semifields, by doubling of central simple algebras. We thus obtain division algebras of dimension 2s 2 by doubling central division algebras of degree s. Results on isomorphisms and automorphisms of these algebras are obtained in certain cases.
A finite-dimensional Lie algebra is called an A-algebra if all of its nilpotent subalgebras are abelian. These arise in the study of constant Yang-Mills potentials and have also been particularly important in relation to the problem of describing residually finite varieties. They have been studied by several authors, including Bakhturin, Dallmer, Drensky, Sheina, Premet, Semenov, Towers and Varea. In this paper we establish generalisations of many of these results to Leibniz algebras.
We construct some spectral sequences as tools for computing commutative cohomology of commutative Lie algebras in characteristic 2. In a first part, we focus on a Hochschild-Serre-type spectral sequence, while in a second part we obtain spectral sequences which compare Chevalley--Eilenberg-, commutative- and Leibniz cohomology. These methods are illustrated by a few computations.
For each simple symplectic triple system over the real numbers, the standard enveloping Lie algebra and the algebra of inner derivations of the triple provide a reductive pair related to a semi-Riemannian homogeneous manifold. It is proved that this is an Einstein manifold.
We give a criterion for Leibniz elements in a free diassociative algebra. In the diassociative case one can consider two versions of Lie commutators. We give criterions for elements of diassociative algebras to be Lie under these commutators. One of them corresponds to Leibniz elements. It generalizes the Dynkin-Specht-Wever criterion for Lie elements in a free associative algebra.
We classify all complex 7- and 8-dimensional dual mock-Lie algebras by the algebraic and geometric way. Also, we find all non-trivial complex 9-dimensional dual mock-Lie algebras.
We consider tangent cones to Schubert subvarieties of the flag variety G/B, where B is a Borel subgroup of a reductive complex algebraic group G of type E 6, E 7 or E 8. We prove that if w 1 and w 2 form a good pair of involutions in the Weyl group W of G then the tangent cones Cw 1 and Cw 2 to the corresponding Schubert subvarieties of G/B do not coincide as subschemes of the tangent space to G/B at the neutral point.
The purpose of these survey notes is to give a presentation of a classical theorem of Nomizu [21] that relates the invariant affine connections on reductive homogeneous spaces and nonassociative algebras.
We give a survey of results obtained on the class of conservative algebras and superalgebras, as well as on their important subvarieties, such as terminal algebras.