The family of quaternionic quasi-unitary Lie algebras and their central extensions

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/32/24/313zbMATH Open0952.17004arXivmath-ph/9811010OpenAlexW3099455802MaRDI QIDQ4949129FDOQ4949129

Mariano Santander, Francisco J. Herranz

Publication date: 27 April 2000

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

Abstract: The family of quaternionic quasi-unitary (or quaternionic unitary Cayley--Klein algebras) is described in a unified setting. This family includes the simple algebras sp(N+1) and sp(p,q) in the Cartan series C_{N+1}, as well as many non-semisimple real Lie algebras which can be obtained from these simple algebras by particular contractions. The algebras in this family are realized here in relation with the groups of isometries of quaternionic hermitian spaces of constant holomorphic curvature. This common framework allows to perform the study of many properties for all these Lie algebras simultaneously. In this paper the central extensions for all quasi-simple Lie algebras of the quaternionic unitary Cayley--Klein family are completely determined in arbitrary dimension. It is shown that the second cohomology group is trivial for any Lie algebra of this family no matter of its dimension.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/9811010

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zbMATH Keywords

central extensionsgraded contractionsCayley-Klein algebrasquaternionic quasi-unitary Lie algebras

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Structure theory for Lie algebras and superalgebras (17B05)

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• Some central extensions by means of the quaternion group

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