Cohomology of Lie superalgebras and their generalizations

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DOI10.1063/1.532508zbMATH Open0928.17023arXivq-alg/9701037OpenAlexW3105187314MaRDI QIDQ4701696FDOQ4701696


Authors: M. Scheunert, R. B. Zhang Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The cohomology groups of Lie superalgebras and, more generally, of color Lie algebras, are introduced and investigated. The main emphasis is on the case where the module of coefficients is non-trivial. Two general propositions are proved, which help to calculate the cohomology groups. Several examples are included to show the peculiarities of the super case. For L = sl(1|2), the cohomology groups H^1(L,V) and H^2(L,V), with V a finite-dimensional simple graded L-module, are determined, and the result is used to show that H^2(L,U(L)) (with U(L) the enveloping algebra of L) is trivial. This implies that the superalgebra U(L) does not admit of any non-trivial formal deformations (in the sense of Gerstenhaber). Garland's theory of universal central extensions of Lie algebras is generalized to the case of color Lie algebras.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-alg/9701037




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