Lie bialgebras of generalized Witt type (Q862699): Difference between revisions

The algebras of the title were defined by \textit{D. Ž. Đoković} and \textit{K. Zhao} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No. 2, 643--664 (1998; Zbl 0952.17015)]. They are constructed as follows: For a field \(\mathbb F\) of characteristic zero and positive integer \(n\), let \(A\) be a non-degenerate additive subgroup of \(\mathbb F^n\), i.e., \(A\) contains a basis of the \(\mathbb F\)-vector space \(\mathbb F^n\). Let \(\mathbb F[A]=span\{t^x\mid x \in A\}\) be the group algebra over \(\mathbb F\) \((t^xt^y=t^{x+y})\). For \(i=1,2,\dots,n\), let \(\partial_i\) be the derivation of \(\mathbb F[A]\) with \(\partial_i t^x=x_i t^x\) for \(x=(x_1, x_2,\dots,x_n) \in A\). The generalized Witt algebra \(W_n\) is \(\mathbb F[A] \otimes T\), where \(T\) is the span of \(\partial_1, \partial_2,\dots,\partial_n\). The Lie product is \([t^x \partial, t^y\partial']=t^{x+y}(\partial(y)\partial'-\partial'(x)\partial)\) for \(x,y \in A\), \(\partial,\partial' \in T\), where \(\partial(y)=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i y_i\) for \(\partial=\sum_{i=1}^n a_i \partial_i\), \(y=(y_1,y_2,\dots,y_n)\). \(W_n\) is a simple Lie algebra. The authors of the paper under review show that every Lie bialgebra structure on \(W_n\) is of coboundary triangular type, i.e., the Lie comultiplication is the coboundary of an element of \(W_n \wedge W_n\) which is a solution of the classical Yang-Baxter equation. The main step in their proof is to show that \(H^1(W_n, W_n \otimes W_n)=0\). Their proof follows the lines of recent proofs of the same result for Witt and Virasoro type algebras, e.g., that of \textit{S.-H. Ng} and the reviewer [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 151, No. 1, 67--88 (2000; Zbl 0971.17008)].