COMPOSITION SUPERALGEBRAS

A superalgebra \(C=C_0\oplus C_1\) over a field \(k\) with a regular supersymmetric form \(q\) is a composition algebra if \(q(xy)=q(x)q(y)\) for all \(x,y\in C_0\); \(q(xy,xz) =q(x)q(y,z)\) for all \(x\in C_0 \) and \(y,z\in C\); \(q(x,y)=0\) provided \(x\in C_0, y\in C_1\); \[ b(xy,zt) +(-1)^{|x||y|+|x||z|+|y||z|} q(zy,xt)+ (-1)^{|y||z|}q(x,t)q(y,t) \] for all homogeneous elements \(x,y,z,t\in C\). A unital composition superalgebra is called a Hurwitz algebra. There are given examples of these algebras such as \(B(1,2), B(4,2)\), their deformations \(\overline{B(1,2)}_{\lambda}, \overline{B(4,2)} \) and \((D,\alpha)\). It is shown that a Hurwitz algebra \(C\) with a nonzero odd component is isomorphic to one of the superalgebras \(B(1,2), B(2,4)\) or \(D(\alpha)\). A similar result is proved for a composition superalgebra in which \(q(xy,z)=q(x,yz)\) for all \(x,y,z\). It is shown that Lie superalgebras of superderivations of \(\overline{B(1,2)}_{\lambda}\) and of \( \overline{B(4,2)} \) are closely related to \(\text{osp}(1,2)\).

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