Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt theorem for pre-Lie and postLie algebras
Vsevolod Gubarev

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This paper extends the Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt theorem to pre-Lie and postLie algebras by constructing their universal enveloping algebras and establishing PBW pairs, confirming known results with new proofs.
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It constructs universal enveloping algebras for pre-Lie and postLie algebras and proves they form PBW pairs, providing new proofs for existing results.
Findings
Established PBW pairs for pre-Lie and postLie algebras
Constructed universal enveloping preassociative and postassociative algebras
Reproved known PBW result for pre-Lie algebras
Abstract
We construct the universal enveloping preassociative and postassociative algebra for a pre-Lie and a postLie algebra respectively. We show that the pairs and are Poincare-Birkhoff-Witt-pairs, for the first one it's a reproof of the result of V. Dotsenko and P. Tamaroff.
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TopicsAdvanced Topics in Algebra · Algebraic structures and combinatorial models · Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
MSC (2010): 16W99
Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt theorem
for pre-Lie and postLie algebras
V. Gubarev
Abstract
We construct the universal enveloping preassociative and postassociative algebra for a pre-Lie and a postLie algebra respectively. We show that the pairs and are Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt-pairs, for the first one it’s a reproof of the result of V. Dotsenko and P. Tamaroff.
Keywords: Rota—Baxter operator, Gröbner—Shirshov basis, Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt pair of varieties, pre-Lie algebra, postLie algebra, preassociative algebra (dendriform algebra), postassociative algebra.
1 Introduction
In 1960s, pre-Lie algebras appeared independently in affine geometry (E. Vinberg [43]; J.-L. Koszul [30]), and ring theory (M. Gerstenhaber [17]). Arising from diverse areas, pre-Lie algebras are known under different names like Vinberg algebras, Koszul algebras, left- or right-symmetric algebras (LSAs or RSAs), Gerstenhaber algebras. Pre-Lie algebras satisfy an identity . See [7, 36] for surveys on pre-Lie algebras.
In 2001, J.-L. Loday [32] defined the dendriform (di)algebra (preassociative algebra) as a vector space endowed with two bilinear operations satisfying
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In 1995, J.-L. Loday also defined [31] Zinbiel algebra (precommutative algebra), on which the identity holds. Every preassociative algebra with the identity is a precommutative algebra () and under the product is a pre-Lie algebra.
In 2004, dendriform trialgebra (postassociative algebra) was introduced [35], i.e., an algebra with bilinear operations satisfying seven certain axioms. A space with two bilinear operations and is called a post-Lie algebra (B. Vallette, 2007 [42]) if is a Lie bracket and the next identities hold
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In last dozen years, an amount of articles devoted to post-Lie algebras in different areas is arisen [8, 16, 38].
Let us explain the choice of terminology. Given a binary quadratic operad , the defining identities for pre- and post--algebras were found in [2]. One can define the operad of pre- and post--algebras as and respectively. Here and denote the operads (varieties) of pre-Lie algebras and postLie algebras respectively, denotes the black Manin product of operads [18]. By pre- or postalgebra we will mean pre- or post--algebra for some operad .
Before stating the main problem of the work we introduce a very useful tool to deal with pre- and postalgebras, so called Rot—Baxter operators, and the notion of a Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt pair.
A linear operator defined on an algebra over a field is called a Rota—Baxter operator (RB-operator, for short) of a weight if it satisfies the relation
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In this case, an algebra is called Rota—Baxter algebra (RB-algebra).
G. Baxter defined the notion of what is now called Rota—Baxter operator on a (commutative) algebra in 1960 [4], solving an analytic problem. The relation (1) with appeared as a generalization of integration by parts formula. G.-C. Rota [40], P. Cartier [9] and others studied different combinatorial properties of RB-operators and RB-algebras. In 1980s, the deep connection between Lie RB-algebras and Yang—Baxter equation was found [5, 41]. More about Rota—Baxter algebras see in the monograph of L. Guo [27].
In 2000, M. Aguiar [1] stated that an associative algebra with a given Rota—Baxter operator of weight zero under the operations , is a preassociative algebra. In 2002, K. Ebrahimi-Fard [14] showed that an associative RB-algebra of nonzero weight under the same two products , and the third operation is a postassociative algebra. The analogue of the Aguiar construction for the pair of pre-Lie algebras and Lie RB-algebras of weight zero was stated in 2000 by M. Aguiar [1] and by I.Z. Golubchik, V.V. Sokolov [19]. In 2010 [3], this construction for the pair of post-Lie algebras and Lie RB-algebras of nonzero weight was extended.
In 2013 [2], the construction of M. Aguiar and K. Ebrahimi-Fard was generalized for the case of arbitrary variety.
In 2008, the notion of universal enveloping RB-algebras of pre- and postassociative algebras was introduced [15]. In [15], it was also proved that the universal enveloping of a free pre- or postassociative algebra is free.
In 2010, with the help of Gröbner—Shirshov bases [6], Yu. Chen and Q. Mo proved that every preassociative algebra over a field of characteristic zero injectively embeds into its universal enveloping RB-algebra [11].
In 2013 [25], given a variety , it was proved that every pre--algebra (post--algebra) injectively embeds into its universal enveloping -RB-algebra of weight (). Further, author constructed universal enveloping RB-algebra for a given pre- or postalgebra in commutative [20], associative [21], and Lie [22] cases. In the associative case it gave an answer to the question of L. Guo [27, p. 148].
The classical Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt theorem states that given a Lie algebra with a linear basis , where is a well-ordered set, the monomials with form a linear basis for the universal enveloping associative algebra . As a consequence, we get that the linear basis of the algebra does not depend on the product in the Lie algebra . Such relationships between two varieties in the case when there exists a functor associating to every algebra an algebra by changing multiplication in was generalized by I. Shestakov and A.A. Mikhalev in the term Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt (PBW-) pair, see details in [37].
Now let us formulate the main problem to which the work is devoted. In advance, and denote the varieties of pre- and postassociative algebras respectively.
Problem 1. a) Prove that every pre-Lie (postLie) algebra injectively embeds into its universal enveloping preassociative (postassociative) algebra.
b) Clarify if the pairs and are PBW-ones.
c) Construct the universal enveloping preassociative (postassociative) algebra for a given pre-Lie (postLie) algebra.
For pre-Lie algebras, Problem 1b and special version of Problem 1c were stated by P. Kolesnikov in [29] in the context of Gröbner—Shirshov bases for preassociative algebras. J.-L. Loday asked V. Dotsenko about the solution of Problem 1b around 2009 [13]. The discussion of Problem 1 in the case of restricted pre-Lie algebras can be found in [12]. The analogues of Problem 1 for Koszul-dual objects, di- and trialgebras, were solved in [34, 26].
Recently, in [24] and [23], the author solved Problem 1a in pre- and postalgebra cases with the help of embedding of pre-Lie (postLie) algebras into Lie RB-algebras [25] and the Gröbner—Shirshov bases technique developed for associative RB-algebras [28]. Actually, the solution of Problem 1a for pre-Lie algebras can be derived from the results concerned Hopf preassociative algebras and so called brace algebras stated in 2002 independently by F. Chapaton [10] and M. Ronco [39]. In 2018, V. Dotsenko and P. Tamaroff by means of the general approach arising from the category theory solved Problem 1b for pre-Lie algebras stating that the pair of varieties is a PBW-pair [13].
The current work is devoted to the complete solution of Problem 1 in both pre- and postalgebra cases. Let us briefly describe the idea of the solution. For this, we need one more embedding problem.
Let be an associative algebra with an RB-operator . Then the algebra is a Lie RB-algebra under the product and the same action of . Thus, we can state the analogue of Problem 1 for the varieties of Lie and associative RB-algebras.
Problem 2. a) Prove that every Lie RB-algebra injectively embeds into its universal enveloping associative RB-algebra.
b) Construct the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra for a given Lie RB-algebra.
We are not asking whether the pair of the varieties of associative and Lie RB-algebras forms a PBW-pair, since it is easy to disprove it just in 2-dimensional case. To the moment, we are far from the solution Problem 2, and the current work as well as [23, 24] can be also considered like a step in such direction.
The sketch of the solution of Problem 1c is following. At first, we embed a pre- or post-Lie algebra into its universal enveloping Lie RB-algebra [22]. At second, with the help of Gröbner—Shirshov bases we embed the Lie RB-algebra into its universal enveloping associative RB-algebra with an RB-operator . At third, we show that a subalgebra generated by in the induced pre- or postassociative algebra on the space is the universal enveloping pre- or postassociative algebra for .
Actually, the same solution algorithm was used earlier by author in [23] and [24] but with the following change: in the first step it was considered injective enveloping Lie RB-algebra from [25] instead of , the universal enveloping one constructed in [22]. Surprisingly, a posteriori we may say that at least in the pre-Lie algebra case the injective enveloping preassociative algebra of a given pre-Lie algebra obtained earlier in [24] is an universal one.
At the end of Introduction, let us collect all stated in the work connections between universal enveloping algebras of different kind in the following commutative diagram,
\textstyle{\mathrm{pre}/\mathrm{post}\mathrm{Lie}}$$\textstyle{\textrm{RB}\mathrm{Lie}}$$\textstyle{\mathrm{pre}/\mathrm{post}\mathrm{As}}$$\textstyle{\textrm{RB}\mathrm{As}}
where every arrow maps the algebra from corresponding variety into its universal enveloping one. An associative RB-algebra with an RB-operator of weight () is an enveloping for a pre-Lie (postLie) algebra in the sense that the following equalities
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hold for any .
2 Preliminaries
2.1 Some required formulas
Given a Lie algebra , denote the product by .
Lemma [24]. Given a Lie algebra , the equality
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holds in the universal enveloping algebra for any and .
It follows immediately from (1) that
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where the sign shows the omitting action of . From (3) and (4), we derive the formula
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where and means .
In advance we will use the formula (5) with maybe absent and , it means that we omit all and in the summands and all indexes start with two when is absent. We do the same if is absent.
2.2 Embedding of pre- and postalgebras into RB-algebras
Theorem 1 [1, 2, 3, 14, 19, 33]. Let be an RB-algebra of a variety and weight (). With respect to the operations
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is a pre--algebra (post--algebra).
Denote the pre- and post--algebra obtained in Theorem 1 as .
Given a pre--algebra , universal enveloping RB--algebra of is the universal algebra in the class of all RB--algebras of weight zero such that there exists homomorphism from to . Analogously universal enveloping RB--algebra of a post--algebra is defined.
Theorem 2 [25]. Every pre--algebra (post--algebra) could be embedded into its universal enveloping RB-algebra of the variety and weight ().
Let us briefly describe the idea of the proof of Theorem 2. Given a pre--algebra (post--algebra) , we define the product on the space , where is a copy of , in such a way that is an algebra of the variety . Then we define on the linear operator which occurs to be a Rota—Baxter operator of weight (). Finally, Theorem 2 was stated by embedding into by the map .
2.3 Gröbner—Shirshov bases for associative RB-algebras
Let denote the free associative algebra generated by a set with a linear map in the signature. One can construct a linear basis of (see, e.g., [15]) by induction. At first, all elements from , the free semigroup generated by , lie in the basis. At second, if we have basic elements , , then the word lies in the basis of . Here and , where denotes the empty word. Let us denote the basis obtained as . Given a word from , the number of appearances of the symbol in is denoted by , the -degree of . We call an element from of the form as -letter. By we denote the union of and the set of all -letters. Given , define (degree of ) as the length of in the alphabet . In [15], was called the breadth of .
Suppose that is a well-ordered set with respect to . Let us introduce by induction the deg-lex order on . At first, we compare two words and by the length: if . At second, when , , , , we have if either or , . We compare two words and from by -degree: if . If , we compare and in deg-lex order as words in the alphabet . Here we define each from to be less than all -letters and if and only if .
Let be a symbol not containing in . By a -bracketed word on , we mean a basic word from with exactly one occurrence of . The set of all -bracketed words on is denoted by . For and , we define as the bracketed word obtained by replacing the letter in by .
The order defined above is monomial, i.e., from it follows that for all and .
Given , by we mean the leading word in . We call monic if the coefficient of in is 1.
Definition 1 [28]. Let . If there exist such that with , then we define as and call it the composition of intersection of and with respect to . If there exist and such that , then we define as and call it the composition of inclusion of and with respect to .
Definition 2 [28]. Let be a subset of monic elements from and .
(1) For , we call and congruent modulo and denote this by if with , , and .
(2) For and suitable or that give a composition of intersection or a composition of inclusion , the composition is called trivial modulo if or .
(3) The set is called a Gröbner—Shirshov basis if, for all , all compositions of intersection and all compositions of inclusion are trivial modulo .
Theorem 3 [28]. Let be a set of monic elements in , let be a monomial ordering on and let be the -ideal of generated by . If is a Gröbner—Shirshov basis in , then where and is a linear basis of .
3 PBW-theorem for pre-Lie and postLie algebras
Let be an associative algebra with an RB-operator . Then the algebra is a Lie RB-algebra under the product and the same action of .
Let be a Lie RB-algebra with an RB-operator of weight . Suppose that there exists a subset in such that is a linear basis of . Our goal is to construct the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra of (via Gröbner—Shirshov bases). This will lead us to the proof of the Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt (PBW) theorem for the pairs (pre-Lie, preAs) and (postLie, postAs).
We may assume that the set is well-ordered, so we define an order on the set : if or and .
Consider the set of the following elements in :
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where is defined as the RHS of (5) for and
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Here for and denotes for , i.e., .
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and is greater than any letter from .
By we denote either that or that is absent, i.e., . The same holds for . In particular, the values , , , transform (9) to the relation .
Remark 1. In (9), we use associative words instead of ordered polynomials from , otherwise we will have to reduce the products of such polynomials from to the ordered ones in all possible compositions from .
Theorem 4. The set is a a Gröbner—Shirshov basis in .
Proof. All compositions between two elements from (7) are trivial, as it is the method to construct the universal enveloping associative algebra for a given Lie algebra. Also, compositions of intersection between (8) and (8) are trivial, it is a way to get the free associative RB-algebra. Thus, all compositions of intersection which are not at the same time compositions of inclusion are trivial.
Let us compute a composition of inclusion between (7) and (9). Let
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satisfy all conditions described above. We apply the relation (7): to the subword
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Suppose that . Since the image of an RB-operator is a subalgebra, lies in the linear combination of elements from . Define and , here means the word with the subword replaced by .
On the one hand, we have modulo
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where is the expression in the RHS in the brackets under the action of from (5).
On the other hand, modulo
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So, the composition equals and we may rewrite it briefly as
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for corresponding index set and . We get zero, since
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and has zero kernel on .
Consider the case . The triviality of the corresponding composition of inclusion one can derive from the following fact. Denote as the expression (4) for ,
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where and the words satisfy the conditions for (9) except the one concerned . We also have that the word contains the biggest letter , , on the positions
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So, the composition of inclusion is trivial if
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for greater than all terns involved in .
To prove (11), we will proceed on by induction on . For , we are done by (9).
Consider the equality
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where is obtained from by arising all letters with preserving order of all remaining letters, is obtained from the word by arising all letters . For , , the bracket in (12) means
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By (9) and Lemma, we deduce that
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where . The equality modulo follows from the inductive hypothesis.
Consider a composition of inclusion between (8) and (9). Let be defined by (10) and . At first, we have modulo
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where is the expression in the RHS in the brackets under the action of from (5). At second, modulo
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So, the composition of inclusion multiplied by equals
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Depending on the last factor, splits into the sum . Applying the formulas
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we deduce
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Writing down the sum , equals to zero by the definition of , and Lemma.
Compute a composition of inclusion between (9) and (9). Suppose that we have defined by (10) and
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satisfying all conditions written above for (7).
Consider the case . By , as earlier, we mean the expression in the RHS in the brackets under the action of from (5) for . By , denote the expression in the RHS in the brackets under the action of from (5) for . We also define
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, where we collect all summands from with the factor in the sum and all others in .
On the one hand, modulo we get
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On the other hand,
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Subtracting (14) from (13), we get , where
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for . Equality of to zero follows from Lemma.
The proof in the case is slightly different if only and . Then we need to apply the equality A\big{(}z_{1},\vec{x}_{q_{1}},z_{2},\ldots,z_{s},\vec{x}_{q_{s}}x_{\beta,r}x_{\beta,r+1}^{k}\vec{x}_{t_{1}}x_{\gamma,o+1}^{m+1},a_{2}\big{)}\equiv 0 modulo . Such application is correct, since all terms involved in it have less -degree than .
It is easy to verify that the remaining compositions of inclusion between (7) and (8) are trivial.
Corollary 1. The quotient of by is the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra for the Lie algebra with the RB-operator . Moreover, injectively embeds into .
Proof. By (8), is an associative RB-algebra. By (7)–(9), we have that is enveloping of for both: the Lie bracket and the action of . Thus, is an associative enveloping of .
Let us prove that is the universal enveloping one. At first, is generated by . At second, all elements from are identities in the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra . Indeed, (7) are enveloping conditions for the product, (8) is the RB-identity, the relations (9) as the application of (5) are direct consequences of the RB-identity.
By Theorems 3 and 4 we get the injectivity of embedding into .
Let be a pre- or post-Lie algebra with a linear basis . By Theorem 2, can be injectively embedded into the Lie algebra with the RB-operator of weight and such subset that is a linear basis of . Here is a well-ordered set. Then, by Corollary 1, we embed the Lie RB-algebra into its universal enveloping associative algebra with the RB-operator . Thus, the subalgebra (in pre- or postalgebra sense) in generated by the set is an enveloping pre- or postassociative algebra of .
Now, we state the main result of the work, the analogue of the Poincaré—Birkhoff—Witt theorem for pre-Lie and postLie algebras.
Theorem 5. a) Let be a pre- or post-Lie algebra, then is the universal enveloping pre- or postassociative algebra of .
b) [13] The pairs and are PBW-pairs.
Proof. a) Consider the postLie algebra case, the proof when is a pre-Lie algebra is the same. Let be a basis of . It is easy to show that is the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra for in the sense of the equalities (2). Indeed, given an enveloping associative RB-algebra of , define as the Lie RB-subalgebra of generated by the image of . By the universality of , we have that is the homomorphic image of the Lie RB-algebra . Thus, as the enveloping of is the homomorphic image of the universal enveloping associative RB-algebra of . The last one is the homomorphic image of .
Consider the universal enveloping postassociative algebra of . Due to Theorem 2, we may embed in its universal enveloping associative RB-algebra with RB-operator . Since is the homomorphic image of , as the subalgebra in generated by is the homomorphic image of .
b) We get it by the construction.
Corollary 2. The pairs and are PBW-pairs.
Corollary 3. The universal enveloping associative RB-algebra of is isomorphic to .
As another corollary, we obtain the commutative diagram from Introduction.
4 Universal enveloping pre/post-associative algebra
4.1 Post-Lie case
Given a postLie algebra with a linear basis , we want to construct a linear basis of the universal enveloping postassociative algebra . Define for .
Given a well-ordered set , define .
Let us define a set by induction. At first, . At second, the word
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lies in for , , , or (the same holds for ), if
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at least one of contains a letter from ,
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every is not of the following form
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with the same conditions written for . Moreover, and is greater than all letters from .
Theorem 6. The set forms a linear basis of .
Proof. At first, Theorems 3 and 4 imply that the set is a linearly independent set of elements in .
At second, we show that . Let us prove it by induction of the summary -degree of factors involved in the process of generating the algebra . By the definition, . If , we get only linear combinations of elements of the form with at least one letter from , where we identify with for every . Because of (7), we have .
Let us prove the inductive step for . Suppose that , more precisely,
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where
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by , as above, we mean that either or . The same holds for .
To prove Theorem, it is enough to state that . We have modulo
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where . In the third case, we have an element from . In the first one, we need to express via basic elements from and so . Finally, in the second case, after rewriting as a linear combination of elements from , we only need to check the condition 2 of the definition of . If it’s required, we apply the relation (9) and we are done by induction on .
We have modulo
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By the inductive hypothesis, . We need to check the condition 2 of the definition of for the first -letter of the product. As above, we apply (9).
The case of can be considered analogously.
Remark 2. We may reformulate Theorem 6 in terms avoiding and any factorization. For this, we need to define by induction the products on the space .
4.2 Pre-Lie case
Given a pre-Lie algebra with a linear basis , we construct a linear basis of the universal enveloping preassociative algebra .
Let us define a set by induction. At first, . At second, the word
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lies in for , , , or (the same holds for ), if
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the only contains a letter from ,
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every is not of the following form
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with the same conditions written for ; and is greater than all letters from .
Theorem 7. The set forms a linear basis of .
Proof. Analogously to the proof of Theorem 6.
Example. If is a one-dimensional pre-Lie algebra with linear basis , then is a linear basis of . Indeed, because of the condition 2, all basic elements have no -letters, so we have unique and several to form the elements from . Moreover, in the case we have the isomorphism , where means the associated graded preassociative algebra obtained from by the filtration by the degree and means a free precommutative algebra generated by the set . If has the trivial product, then .
Remark 3. Note that given a pre-Lie algebra , the injective enveloping preassociative algebra constructed in [24] is isomorphic to , so it is the universal enveloping one. In the current paper, we have embedded into its universal enveloping Lie RB-algebra, but in [24] was embedded into the enveloping Lie RB-algebra arisen from the proof of Theorem 2. A posteriori, we conclude that it is enough to embed into the doubling (as a vector space) Lie RB-algebra to preserve all required connections for the construction of the universal enveloping preassociative algebra .
Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Austrian Science Foundation FWF grant P28079.
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