A Magnus- and Fer-type formula in dendriform algebras. (Q1029208)

A dendriform algebra \((A,\prec,\succ)\) over a field of characteristic zero consists of a vector space \(A\) endowed with two bilinear operations \(\prec\) and \(\succ\) such that 1. \((a\prec b)\prec c=a\prec(b\prec c + b\succ c)\); 2. \((a\succ b)\prec c=a\succ(b\prec c)\); 3. \(a\succ (b\succ c)=(a\prec b + a\succ b)\succ c\). In the paper under review the authors obtain a recursive formula for logarithms of solutions of the equations \(X=1+\lambda a\prec X\) and \(Y=1-\lambda Y\succ a\) in \(A[[\lambda]]\), where \((A,\prec,\succ)\) is a dendriform algebra. The authors also write solutions to the above equations as an infinite product expansion of exponentials. Both formulae involve the pre-Lie product naturally associated with the dendriform structure. Various applications of these results, in particular, to some differential equations, are presented.