Title Quasi-bom-Lie algebras, central extensions and 2-cocycle-like identities
Authors Daniel Larsson, Sergei Silvestrov
Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j..., Restricted Access
Publication Journal of Algebra
Year 2005
Volume 288
Issue 2
Pages 321 - 344
Document type Article
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Abstract English This paper introduces the notion of a quasi-hom-Lie algebra, or simply, a qhl-algebra, which is a natural generalization of hom-Lie algebras introduced in a previous paper J.T. Hartwig, D. Larsson, S.D. Silvestrov, Deformations of Lie algebras using sigma-derivations, math. QA/0408064. Quasi-hom-Lie algebras include also as special cases (color) Lie algebras and superalgebras, and can be seen as deformations of these by maps, twisting the Jacobi identity and skew-symmetry. The natural realm for these quasi-hom-Lie algebras is generalizations-deformations of the Witt algebra delta of derivations on the Laurent polynomials Ct,t(-1). We also develop a theory of central extensions for qhl-algebras which can be used to deform and generalize the Virasoro algebra by centrally extending the deformed Witt type algebras constructed here. In addition, we give a number of other interesting examples of quasi-hom-Lie algebras, among them a deformation of the loop algebra.
Keywords Loop algebras, Witt algebras, algebras, (color) Lie, quasi-hom-Lie algebras, deformations, central extensions, Virasoro algebras,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISSN: 0021-8693

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