Nonassociative algebras: a framework for differential geometry

DOI10.1155/S0161171203303023MaRDI QIDQ1415221zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Lucian M. Ionescu

Publication date 3 December 2003

Published in International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/50817

zbMATH Keywords

formal connection.formal manifold nonassociative algebra torsion algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Noncommutative algebraic geometry (14A22) Composition algebras (17A75) de Rham theory in global analysis (58A12)

Review text

The author considers a (possibly) nonassociative algebra endowed with an additional Lie algebra structure \((A, \mu, [\cdot, \cdot])\), called a torsion algebra, and a covariant calculus is defined. A torsion algebra is based on the interpretation of its elements as vector fields with its multiplication interpreted as a connection. This provides a framework for differential geometry on a formal manifold with a formal connection. The torsion algebras generalizes pre-Lie algebras which appear as the ``torsionless case. The starting point is the observation that the associator of a nonassociative algebra is essentially the curvature of the corresponding Hochschild quasicomplex. It is a cocycle, and the corresponding equation is interpreted as Bianchi identity. The curvature-associator-monoidal structure relationships are discussed and conditions on torsion algebras allowing to construct an algebra of functions, whose algebra of derivations is the initial Lie algebra, are considered (Section 4). The main example of a torsion algebra is provided by the pre-Lie algebra of Hochschild cochains of a \(k\)-module, with Lie bracket induced by Gerstenhaber composition .

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