Generalized electrical Lie algebras

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An infinitely generated electrical Lie algebra of type A appeared in the context of categorification in representation theory. This paper generalizes the notion of electrical Lie algebra into a multiparametric family in any given semisimple or Kac-Moody Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), in such a way that they are flat deformations of the nilpotent part \(\mathfrak{n}\) of \(\mathfrak{g}\). A. Berenstein, A. Gainutdinov, and V. Gorbounov also construct various embeddings (vertex and edge models) of the electrical Lie algebras into the corresponding Kac-Moody ones. That is, to each Kac-Moody Lie algebra \(\mathfrak{g}\), the authors associate two types (vertex type and edge type) of the generalized electrical algebras. The electrical Lie algebras of vertex type are always subalgebras of \(\mathfrak{g}\) and are flat deformations of the nilpotent Lie subalgebra of \(\mathfrak{g}\). In many cases including \(\mathfrak{sl}_n\), \(\mathfrak{so}_n\), and \(\mathfrak{sp}_{2n}\), the authors find new (edge) models for their generalized electrical Lie algebras of vertex type. Finding an edge model in general is an interesting open problem.











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