Existence of a Lie bialgebra structure on every Lie algebra (Q1330307)

We construct an exact Lie bialgebra structure on every non-Abelian, finite-dimensional Lie algebra \(\ell\). The Lie bialgebra structures we construct are very simple. They are always constructed with an element \(r\) of \(\Lambda^ 2{\ell}\) of the form \(r:= X \wedge Y\), where \(X\) and \(Y\) are elements of \(\ell\). This extends some work of W. Michaelis where he constructs a Lie bialgebra structure on any Lie algebra containing two elements \(X\) and \(Y\) such that \([X,Y] = Y\). (The Lie bialgebra structure is constructed with \(r:= X \wedge Y\).) In the first section, we recall the definitions of an exact and nonexact Lie bialgebra structure and give the conditions on the \(r\) matrix for the bialgebra to be nontrivial. In the second section, we prove the existence theorem.