A Peirce decomposition for \((-1,-1)\) Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems (Q2518923)

For \(\varepsilon=\pm 1\) and \(\delta=\pm 1\), an \((\varepsilon,\delta)\) Freudenthal-Kantor triple system is a vector space endowed with a triple product \(abc=L(a,b)c\) such that \([L(a,b),L(c,d)]=L(abc,d)+\varepsilon L(c,bad)\) and \(K(abc,d)+K(c,abd)+\delta K(a,K(c,d)b)=0\), where \(K(a,b)c=acb-\delta bca\). Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems are building blocks in the construction of some \({\mathbb Z}\)-graded Lie algebras (\(\delta=1\)) and superalgebras (\(\delta=-1\)). Given a tripotent element \(e\): \(eee=e\), in a \((-1,-1)\) Freudenthal-Kantor triple system, it is shown that the system decomposes into the direct sum of four Peirce spaces \(U=U_{0,0}\oplus U_{1,-1}\oplus U_{0,1}\oplus U_{1,1}\), where \(U_{\lambda,\mu}=\{x\in U: eex=\lambda x,\, xee=\mu x\}\). Moreover, for balanced \((-1,-1)\) Freudenthal-Kantor triple systems, i.e., there is a symmetric bilinear form such that \(K(a,b)c=(a|b)c\) for any \(a,b,c\), the subspaces \(U_{0,0}\) and \(U_{0,1}\) are shown to be trivial. Some examples of these Peirce decompositions are given, too.