How Euler would compute the Euler-Poincaré characteristic of a Lie superalgebra

DOI10.1016/J.EXMATH.2011.06.002zbMATH Open1287.17042arXiv0812.2255OpenAlexW3105493475MaRDI QIDQ634542FDOQ634542

Authors: Pasha Zusmanovich 

Publication date: 16 August 2011

Published in: Expositiones Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Euler-Poincar'e characteristic of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra vanishes. If we want to extend this result to Lie superalgebras, we should deal with infinite sums. We observe that a suitable method of summation, which goes back to Euler, allows to do that, to a certain degree. The mathematics behind it is simple, we just glue the pieces of elementary homological algebra, first-year calculus and pedestrian combinatorics together, and present them in a (hopefully) coherent manner.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0812.2255

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zbMATH Keywords

divergent seriescolor Lie algebraEuler-Poincaré characteristic

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Abel, Borel and power series methods (40G10) Color Lie (super)algebras (17B75)

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