Lie-Massey brackets and \(n\)-homotopically multiplicative maps of differential graded Lie algebras (Q687591)

As the author explains, the paper under review was written in the early seventies, right after the note [Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 11, No. 4, 88-89 (1978; Zbl 0389.17005)]; however, at the time an anomynous interlocutor managed to convince the author that the results do not deserve publication being a part of ``general nonsense''. After two decades, the author came to believe that his results might be not devoid of interest for theoretical physics. The concept of Lie-Massey brackets, invented in [loc. cit.], is an analogue of Massey products, but for the cohomology of differential graded Lie algebras. In the present paper one more notion, that of \(n\)- homotopically multiplicative maps, is transferred to the context of differential graded Lie algebras from that of differential graded associative algebras [\textit{A. Clark}, Pac. J. Math. 15, 65-74 (1965; Zbl 0129.388)]. It is shown that \(n\)-homotopically multiplicative maps preserve the Lie-Massey brackets, exactly as it happens in the associative case. An example of an \(\infty\)-homotopically multiplicative map between Lie algebras of derivations of multiplicative resolutions of a commutative associative algebra is discussed.