On weak Lie 2-algebras

zbMATH Open1168.81352arXiv0712.3461MaRDI QIDQ3632068FDOQ3632068

Authors: Dmitry Roytenberg 

Publication date: 23 June 2009

Abstract: A Lie 2-algebra is a linear category equipped with a functorial bilinear operation satisfying skew-symmetry and Jacobi identity up to natural transformations which themselves obey coherence laws of their own. Functors and natural transformations between Lie 2-algebras can also be defined, yielding a 2-category. Passing to the normalized chain complex gives an equivalence of 2-categories between Lie 2-algebras and 2-term "homotopy everything" Lie algebras; for strictly skew-symmetric Lie 2-algebras, these reduce to $L_{i}nfty$-algebras, by a result of Baez and Crans. Lie 2-algebras appear naturally as infinitesimal symmetries of solutions of the Maurer--Cartan equation in some differential graded Lie algebras and $L_{i}nfty$-algebras. In particular, (quasi-) Poisson manifolds, (quasi-) Lie bialgebroids and Courant algebroids provide large classes of examples.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3461

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zbMATH Keywords

Courant algebroidcategorificationLie algebracrossed module

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Leibniz algebras (17A32) Special categories (18B99) Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras (17B99) Homological algebra in category theory, derived categories and functors (18G99)

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