Enhanced Leibniz algebras: structure theorem and induced Lie 2-algebra

DOI10.1007/S00220-019-03522-4MaRDI QIDQ2181973zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Friedrich Wagemann, Thomas Strobl

Publication date 20 May 2020

Published in Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.01014

zbMATH Keywords

(enhanced) Leibniz algebraLie algebranon-abelian gerbe (gauge) theoryspacetime manifoldYang-Mills functional

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Leibniz algebras (17A32) Lie (super)algebras associated with other structures (associative, Jordan, etc.) (17B60) Applied homological algebra and category theory in algebraic topology (55U99)

Abstract: An enhanced Leibniz algebra is an algebraic struture that arises in the context of particular higher gauge theories describing self-interacting gerbes. It consists of a Leibniz algebra $(mathbbV,[cdot,cdot])$, a bilinear form on $mathbbV$ with values in another vector space $mathbbW$, and a map $tcolonmathbbWomathbbV$, satisfying altogether four compatibility relations. Our structure theorem asserts that an enhanced Leibniz algebra is uniquely determined by the underlying Leibniz algebra $(mathbbV,[cdot,cdot])$, an appropriate abelian ideal $mathfraki$ inside it, as well as a cohomology 2-class $[Delta]$ which only effects the $mathbbW$-valued product. Positive quadratic enhanced Leibniz algebras, as needed for the definition of a Yang-Mills type action functional, turn out to be rather restrictive on the underlying Leibniz algebra $(mathbbV,[cdot,dot])$: $mathbbV$ has to be the hemisemidirect product of a positive quadratic Lie algebra $mathfrakg$ with a $mathfrakg$-module $mathfraki$, $mathbbVcongmathfrakgltimesmathfraki$, with $mathfraki$ the above-mentioned ideal in this case. The second main result of this article is the construction of a functor from the category of such enhanced Leibniz algebras to the category of (semi-strict) Lie 2-algebras or, equivalentely, of two-term $L_{i}nfty$-algebras.

Review text

Enhanced Leibniz algebras (ELAs) are a particular algebraic structure that arose in the context of non-abelian gauge theories for \(1\)- and \(2\)-form gauge fields, i.e., in the context of non-abelian gerbes [\textit{T. Strobl}, ``Non-abelian gerbes and enhanced Leibniz algebras, Phys. Rev. D 94, No. 2, Article ID 021702, 6 p. (2016; \url{doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.94.021702})]. It consists of a Leibniz algebra \((\mathbb{V}, [-, -])\), a bilinear form on \(\mathbb{V}\) with values in another vector space \(\mathbb{W}\), and a map \(t : \mathbb{W} \to\mathbb{V}\), satisfying altogether four compatibility relations. The main structure theorem of this paper (Theorem 2.14) asserts that an enhanced Leibniz algebra is uniquely determined by the underlying Leibniz algebra \((\mathbb{V}, [-, -])\), an appropriate abelian ideal inside it, as well as a cohomology \(2\)-class which only effects the \(\mathbb{W}\)-valued product. The second main result is the construction of a functor from the category of such enhanced Leibniz algebras to the category of (semi-strict) Lie \(2\)-algebras or, equivalentely, of two-term \(L_\infty\)-algebras.

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