Some properties of the Schur multiplier and stem covers of Leibniz crossed modules (Q2006679)

Leibniz crossed modules are usual generalization of Leibniz algebras and also modules and ideals over Leibniz algebras. So it is a natural to search for similar concepts and results of Leibniz algebras in a higher level. In this paper, the well-known notions related to the Schur multiplier of groups, Lie algebras, Leibniz algebras are studied in the category \textbf{XLb} of Leibniz algebras crossed modules. At first, authors recalled some basic categorical concepts such as the commutator of two ideals, the center and central extensions of Leibniz crossed modules. Moreover, they showed that the category of Leibniz crossed modules has enough projective objects. Hence, the Baer invariant associated with a projective presentation of \((\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{q},\delta)\) can be defined and is called the Schur multiplier of the Leibniz crossed module \((\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{q},\delta)\) which is denoted by \(\mathcal{M}(\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{q},\delta)\). As an interesting description of the Scur multiplier, authors proved that \[\mathcal{M}(\mathfrak{n},\mathfrak{q},\delta)\cong \mathrm{Ker}((\mathfrak{q}\curlywedge\mathfrak{n}, \mathfrak{q}\curlywedge\mathfrak{q}, id\curlywedge\delta)\to (\mathfrak{n}, \mathfrak{q}, \delta)), \] where the symbol \(\curlywedge\) is the non-abelian exterior product of Leibniz algebras. They used this result to construct a Stallings type of six-term exact sequence of Leibniz crossed modules associated with a central extension of Leibniz crossed modules. Also, the authors study basic properties of stem covers of Leibniz crossed modules. In particular, they prove the existence of stem covers for an arbitrary Leibniz crossed module and determined the common structure of all stem covers of a Leibniz crossed modules whose Schur multiplier is finite dimensional. Finally, in the last section, they study the connections between the stem covers of a Lie crossed module in the categories of Lie and Leibniz crossed modules.