3-Lie algebra $A_{\omega}^{\delta}$-modules and induced modules
Ruipu Bai, Yue Ma, Pei Liu

TL;DR
This paper explores the structure of modules over a specific 3-Lie algebra, establishing connections with induced modules of its derivation algebra and constructing infinite-dimensional modules with particular properties.
Contribution
It introduces the concept of induced modules for 3-Lie algebras and constructs explicit infinite-dimensional modules, analyzing their relation to modules of the inner derivation algebra.
Findings
Only certain modules are induced modules among the constructed infinite-dimensional modules.
Established a relationship between 3-Lie algebra modules and modules of its derivation algebra.
Constructed explicit examples of infinite-dimensional modules for the algebra.
Abstract
In this paper, we define the induced modules of Lie algebra ad associated with a 3-Lie algebra -module, and study the relation between 3-Lie algebra -modules and induced modules of inner derivation algebra ad. We construct two infinite dimensional intermediate series modules of 3-Lie algebra , and two infinite dimensional modules and of the Lie algebra ad, and prove that only and are induced modules.
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TopicsAdvanced Topics in Algebra · Algebraic structures and combinatorial models · Homotopy and Cohomology in Algebraic Topology
00footnotetext: Corresponding author: Ruipu Bai, E-mail: [email protected].
3-Lie algebra -modules and induced modules
RuiPu Bai
College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei University
Key Laboratory of Machine Learning and Computational
Intelligence of Hebei Province, Baoding 071002, P.R. China
,
Yue Ma
College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
and
Pei Liu
College of Mathematics and Information Science, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China
Abstract.
In this paper, we define the induced modules of Lie algebra ad associated with a 3-Lie algebra -module, and study the relation between 3-Lie algebra -modules and induced modules of inner derivation algebra ad. We construct two infinite dimensional intermediate series modules of 3-Lie algebra , and two infinite dimensional modules and of the Lie algebra ad, and prove that only and are induced modules.
Key words and phrases:
3-Lie algebra, 3-Lie algebra-module, induced module, intermediate series module
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
17B05, 17B30
1. Introduction
n-Lie algebras were introduced in 1985 ([12]), and their structures were studied extensively [5, 6, 7, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22]. Later, 3-Lie algebras were applied in noncommutative geometry and the quantum geometry of branes in M-theory ([3, 4, 11, 2]).
A canonical Nambu 3-Lie algebra ([19]) is a triple of classical observables on a three-dimensional phase space with coordinates
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which is related to Nambu mechanics (generalizing Hamiltonian mechanics by using more than one hamiltonian). The algebraic formulation of this theory is due to Takhtajan ([24]), see also [11, 14]. Through years of work, 3-Lie algebras can be easily obtained from Lie algebras, commutative algebras, and Pre-Lie algebras ([1, 8, 9, 10]).
The representation theory of n-Lie algebras was first introduced in [17]. The adjoint representation ad) of any n-Lie algebra is defined by ad, for , ad, , is the ternary bracket. In [10], the infinite-dimensional simple 3-Lie algebra was introduced; its adjoint representation was investigated there as well. It is proved that the regular representation of is a Harish-Chandra module, and the natural module of the inner derivation algebra is an intermediate series module. In [23], authors provided a new approach to representation theory of 3-Lie algebras, which is a generalized representation of a 3-Lie algebra. They also gave examples of generalized representations of 3-Lie algebras, and computed 2-cocycles of the new cohomology.
In this paper, we continue to study the representations of 3-Lie algebras. First we construct two infinite dimensional 3-Lie algebra -modules and . Then we study the induced module of the Lie algebra ad associated with a 3-Lie algebra module. We also construct two modules of inner derivation algebra ad, and we prove that and are induced modules, others are not.
Unless otherwise stated, algebras and vector spaces are over a field of characteristic zero, and is the set of integers.
2. Preliminaries
In this section we collect some basic notions of -Lie algebras.
A 3-Lie algebra [12] is a vector space with a linear multiplication (or a -Lie bracket) satisfying,
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For the linear mapping ,
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is called a left multiplication defined by , .
Thanks to (2.1), left multiplications and their linear combinations are derivations, which are called inner derivations. The set ad of all the inner derivations of is an ideal of the derivation algebra Der, and ad is called the inner derivation algebra of .
Let be a 3-Lie algebra, be a vector space and be a linear mapping. If satisfies for all
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then is called a representation[17] of the 3-Lie algebra (or is simply called a 3-Lie algebra -module). If there does not exist non-trivial modules of , then is called an irreducible module of .
For example, for any 3-Lie algebra , is a 3-Lie algebra -module, which is called the adjoint module of , where ad, for all , ad is the left multiplication.
A Cartan subalgebra of a 3-Lie algebra is a nilpotent subalgebra of such that , if satisfies , then .
Let be a 3-Lie algebra -module, . If
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then is called a weight associated with the Cartan subalgebra , and is called a weight space of .
A module of a -Lie algebra is referred to as a weight module if it admits a weight space decomposition
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where is a Cartan subalgebra of .
A module of is called a Harish-Chandra module if it is a weight module and every weight space is finite-dimensional. A Harish-Chandra module of is an intermediate series module if the dimension of every weight space is equal to one.
Let A be a commutative associative algebra over with a basis , where
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Define linear mappings by
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Then is a derivation of , is an involution and satisfy
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Thanks to Theorem 3.3 in [10], is a simple canonical Nambu 3-Lie algebra with the multiplication
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that is,
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which is denoted by .
3. Modules and induced modules of
In [10], authors discussed the structure of the infinite dimensional simple 3-Lie algebra . It is proved that the adjoint representation is a Harish-Chandra module, and (as vector space) as the natural module of the inner derivation algebra ad is an intermediate series module.
In this section we construct infinite dimensional 3-Lie algebra -module , and discuss the relation between 3-Lie algebra -modules and induced modules of inner derivation algebra ad.
In the following of the paper, suppose
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is a vector space over with a basis , and for , denotes
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the subspace of .
3.1. 3-Lie algebra -module
For some , define the linear mapping by
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The pair is denoted by .
Theorem 3.1**.**
By the above notations, is a 3-Lie algebra -module if and only if or . And in the case or ,
1) is a reducible module with submodules for all ;
2) if , then is a trivial submodule of ;
3) if , , , then is an irreducible submodule of ;
4) for , is irreducible if and only if .
Proof.
First, we prove that is an -module if and only if or .
For , and or , thanks to Eqs (2.8) and (3.3), and a direct computation,
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Therefore,
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It is clear that
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Therefore, Eq (2.3) holds.
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From the above discussion, , the identities
and
hold if and only if or , that is, (2.4) holds if and only or .
Therefore, is an -module if and only if or .
Thanks to (3.3), for , is a submodule of , we get 1).
If , then
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it follows that is a trivial submodule. It follows 2).
If , then for all , , there are distinct , such that . By (3.3)
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Then in the case , for , . Thanks to (3.5), is an irreducible submodule of . We get 3).
For , and , then , and there are distinct such that . By (3.3)
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If , then , and , it follows that is irreducible.
If , then there are distinct , such that . Thanks to (3.3)
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Therefore, . Thanks to (3.4), is a trivial submodule of .
If and , then for , , ,
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it follows that is irreducible.
Summarizing the above discussion, we get 4). The proof is complete. ∎
Theorem 3.2**.**
The module and are intermediate series modules of .
Proof.
By (2.8), is a Cartan subalgebra of the 3-Lie algebra . Thanks to (3.3), for
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Therefore, for , is the -weight space with dimension one, and . The result follows. ∎
3.2. Induced modules of 3-Lie algebras
Let be a 3-Lie algebra over , be a 3-Lie algebra -module, where
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is a subalgebra of .
For , if ad=ad, that is,
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then, for all ,
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it follows that is in the center of the Lie algebra , that is,
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Therefore, in the case , if ad=ad, then \rho(x,y)$$=\rho(x^{\prime},y^{\prime}).
Therefore, if , we can define -linear mapping
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We get the following result.
Theorem 3.3**.**
Let be a 3-Lie algebra over , be a 3-Lie algebra -module, and . Then is a Lie algebra ad-module, where is defined by (3.6).
Proof.
Thanks to (2.3) and (2.4), for ,
=\bar{\rho}(\mbox{ad}([x,y,x^{\prime}],y^{\prime}))+\bar{\rho}(\mbox{ad}(x^{\prime},[x,y,y^{\prime}]))=\bar{\rho}\big{(}[\mbox{ad}(x,y),\mbox{ad}(x^{\prime},y^{\prime})]\big{)}.
Therefore, is the inner derivation algebra ad-module. ∎
The inner derivation algebra ad-module is called the induced module associated with the 3-Lie algebra -module , where is defined by (3.6), and is simply called the induced module.
Lemma 3.4**.**
[10]** The inner derivation algebra ad of the 3-Lie algebra has a basis , where
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and the multiplication of ad in the basis is as follows:
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Let be the vector space defined by (3.1), for arbitrary , define -linear mapping
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Theorem 3.5**.**
For , is a reducible -module with submodules , , and
1) if , then is a trivial submodule; if , then is irreducible;
2) is irreducible if and only if and .
Proof.
By Eqs (3.8) and (3.9), for , ,
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Then we get
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It follows that is an ad-module.
By Eqs (3.8) and (3.9), and the complete similar discussion to Theorem 3.1, satisfies 1) and 2). ∎
Theorem 3.6**.**
In the case and , the Lie algebra ad-module is the induced module associated with .
Proof.
From Theorem 3.1 and Eq (3.3), the center . Thanks to Theorem 3.3, ad-module is the induced module of , where is defined by (3.6). By (3.3) , ,
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Follows from (3.9), we get
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It follows the result. ∎
Remark 3.7**.**
From Theorem 3.6, in the case , the inner derivation algebra ad-module is the induced module. But in the case , by Theorem 3.1 and Theorem 3.6, the inner derivation algebra ad-module can not be induced by -modules.
At last of the paper, we construct an ad-module , which is not an induced module.
Define :
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Theorem 3.8**.**
For any is a reducible ad-module, where is defined by (3.10), and
1) for is an irreducible submodule;
2) is a indecomposable submodule containing an irreducible submodule ;
3) is not an induced module.
Proof.
Thanks to (3.8) and (3.10), for , ,
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Therefore,
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and
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It follows that is an ad-module.
For any , and arbitrary distinct , there are nonzero such that . By (3.10), we nave
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Thanks to , , and U(\alpha)=\phi_{\mu}\big{(}ad(A_{\omega}^{\delta})\big{)}(v_{\alpha+m}). We get 1).
If , then .
For arbitrary distinct , there is nonzero , such that . Thanks to (3.10),
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Therefore, is an irreducible submodule.
Since for any nonzero ,
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Follows from is irreducible, is an indecomposable. It follows 2).
If is an induced module, then by (3.6), , where
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and is a 3-Lie algebra -module.
Thanks to Eqs (3.6), (3.7) and (3.10), , , satisfies that
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Therefore, ,
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Then for , , , , , and
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that is, for some we have
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Contradiction. It follows 3). The proof is complete. ∎
**Acknowledgements. ** The first author was supported in part by the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province (A2018201126).
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