A non-abelian tensor product and universal central extension of Leibniz \(n\)-algebra (Q1772524)

A Leibniz \(n\)-algebra is a vector space \(L\) equipped with an \(n\)-linear bracket \([-,\dots,-]:L^{\otimes n}\to L\) satisfying the following identity \[ [[a_1,\dots,a_n],b_2,\dots,b_n]=\sum_{i=1}^{n}[a_1,\dots,a_{i-1},[a_i,b_2,\dots,b_n],a_{i+1},\dots,a_n]. \] If we require in addition that the bracket is skew-symmetric, we get the notion of Nambu algebra, which comes from Nambu mechanics. It turns out that for any Leibniz \(n\)-algebra \(L\), the ordinary tensor \(n\) power \(L^{\otimes n}\) is again a Leibniz \(n\)-algebra. Moreover, the bracket is a homomorphism of Leibniz \(n\)-algebras. (There is no similar result for Nambu algebras.) In the article under review, the author employs this fact to study the universal central extension of a Leibniz \(n\)-algebra. Namely, he constructs the universal central extension \(L\ast\dots\ast L\) of a perfect Leibniz \(n\)-algebra \(L\) as a quotient of \(L^{\otimes n}\). In the article, one can also find definitions of some notions (representation, derivation, semidirect product etc.) for Leibniz \(n\)-algebras. The technique used by the author in this article has been introduced by \textit{T. Pirashvili} and the reviewer [J. Lie Theory 12, No. 2, 583--596 (2002; Zbl 1062.17002)] in the framework of ordinary Leibniz algebras (i.e. Leibniz \(2\)-algebras).