SIMPLE $(-1,-1)$ BALANCED FREUDENTHAL KANTOR TRIPLE SYSTEMS (Q4461571)

The authors classify the simple finite-dimensional \((-1,-1)\) balanced Freudenthal Kantor triple systems over a field \(F\) of characteristic zero. A vector space \(V\) is said to be such a system if there is a trilinear operation \(V \times V \times V \rightarrow V\), \((x,y,z) \mapsto xyz\) and a nonzero bilinear form \((|) : V \times V \rightarrow F\) such that \[ \begin{aligned} [\ell_{a,b}, \ell_{c,d}] &= \ell_{\ell_{a,b} c,d} - \ell_{c,\ell_{b,a} d},\\ \ell_{d,c} k_{a,b} + k_{a,b} \ell_{c,d} &= k_{k_{a,b} c,d} ~~\text{for all}~~ a,b,c,d \in V, \end{aligned} \] where \(\ell_{a,b}, k_{a,b} : V\rightarrow V\) are given by \(\ell_{a,b} c = abc\) and \(k_{a,b} c = acb + bca = (a | b)c\). The classification is shown to be related to that of the finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebras. The main result is that there are six classes of these triple systems, three of which (the orthogonal, unitarian, and symplectic types) have arbitrarily large dimension, while the other three classes have dimensions 4, 7, and 8.