The Pfaffian and the Lie algebra homology of skew-symmetric matrices

DOI10.4310/MRL.2004.V11.N3.A4MaRDI QIDQ1890230zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jean-Louis Cathelineau

Publication date 29 December 2004

Published in Mathematical Research Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4310/MRL.2004.V11.N3.A4

zbMATH Keywords

homologyorthogonal groupPfaffianspecial orthogonal Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Homological algebra in category theory, derived categories and functors (18G99) Cohomology theory for linear algebraic groups (20G10) Homological methods in group theory (20J05)

Review text

Let \(k\) be a field of characteristic zero and \(A\) a commutative \(k\)-algebra. The orthogonal group \(O(n,k)\), which is not connected, acts on the Lie algebra \({\mathfrak {so}}(n,A)\) and hence on its homology; the action on the homology has eigenvalues \(+1\) and \(-1\). The main result shows that many of the eigenspaces vanish or, if they don't vanish, can be identified to Kähler differentials, via the Pfaffian. Moreover, stability results are shown, identifying the homology of \({\mathfrak {so}}(n,A)\) with that of \({\mathfrak {so}}(n+1,A)\) if \(n\) is large relative to the homology degree.

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