On conformal bialgebras (Q2474272): Difference between revisions

Conformal algebras were introduced by \textit{V.~Kac} [Vertex algebras for beginners. 2nd ed., University Lecture Series. 10. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (1998; Zbl 0924.17023)] as the simplification of the vertex algebra structure. A conformal algebra is, roughly speaking, a linear space \(R\) equipped with infinitely many bilinear products \((n):R\times R\to R\), parameterized by an non-negative integer \(n\), and a derivation \(\partial:R\to R\). An important property of these products is that for any fixed \(a,b\in R\) we have \(a(n)b=0\) when \(n\) is large enough. One can equivalently consider a conformal algebra \(R\) as an \(\mathbb C[\partial]\)-module with only one generic operation (\(\lambda \)-product) \[ R\otimes R \to \mathbb C[\lambda]\otimes R, \quad (a_{\lambda } b) = \sum_n\frac{\lambda^n}{n!} (a(n)b), \] satisfying the conformal sesquilinearity \[ \partial a_\lambda b=-\lambda(a_\lambda b),\quad a_\lambda\partial b=(\partial +\lambda)(a_\lambda b). \] For any variety of algebras, like associative, Lie, Jordan, etc., there is the corresponding variety of conformal algebras. The author defines the notions of Lie conformal coalgebra and bialgebra that leads to conformal analogs of the classical Yang-Baxter equation, Manin triples, and Drinfeld's doubles. With the definition of vertex duals, a natural description of the Lie algebra associated with a conformal algebra as a convolution algebra is obtained.