Cohomology and reducibility of representations of semisimple \(\Gamma\)-graded Lie algebras (Q1107616)

A color superalgebra (also called an \(\varepsilon\)-Lie algebra) is a \(\Gamma\)-graded algebra \(L\) whose product map is \(\varepsilon\) skew symmetric and satisfies the \(\varepsilon\) Jacobi identity \(\Gamma\) denotes an abelian group and \(\varepsilon\) a commutation factor on \(\Gamma)\). The authors generalize the well-known Lie algebra cohomology to these algebras and (assuming that they are finite-dimensional) extend several of the elementary classical results. \par As a preparatory step, they introduce certain invariant multilinear forms on \(L\), in particular, the Killing form. Assuming that this form is nondegenerate the authors define the Casimir elements corresponding to the aforementioned forms, they prove that the cohomology of a finite-dimensional \(L\)-module is trivial if the corresponding quadratic Casimir operator is invertible, and they show that the vanishing of certain first order cohomology spaces implies the semi-simplicity of a finite- dimensional \(L\)-module.