Finite vs affine W-algebras

In Section 1 we review various equivalent definitions of a vertex algebra V. The main novelty here is the definition in terms of an indefinite integral of the λ-bracket. In Section 2 we construct, in the most general framework, the Zhu algebra Zhu_ΓV, an associative algebra which “controls” Γ-twisted representations of the vertex algebra V with a given Hamiltonian operator H. An important special case of this construction is the H-twisted Zhu algebra Zhu_H V. In Section 3 we review the theory of non-linear Lie conformal algebras (respectively non-linear Lie algebras). Their universal enveloping vertex algebras (resp. universal enveloping algebras) form an important class of freely generated vertex algebras (resp. PBW generated associative algebras). We also introduce the H-twisted Zhu non-linear Lie algebra Zhu_H R of a non-linear Lie conformal algebra R and we show that its universal enveloping algebra is isomorphic to the H-twisted Zhu algebra of the universal enveloping vertex algebra of R. After a discussion of the necessary cohomological material in Section 4, we review in Section 5 the construction and basic properties of affine and finite W-algebras, obtained by the method of quantum Hamiltonian reduction. Those are some of the most intensively studied examples of freely generated vertex algebras and PBW generated associative algebras. Applying the machinery developed in Sections 3 and 4, we then show that the H-twisted Zhu algebra of an affine W-algebra is isomorphic to the finite W-algebra, attached to the same data. In Section 6 we define the Zhu algebra of a Poisson vertex algebra, and we discuss quasiclassical limits. In the Appendix, the equivalence of three definitions of a finite W-algebra is established. “I am an old man, and I know that a definition cannot be so complicated.” I.M. Gelfand (after a talk on vertex algebras in his Rutgers seminar)     

Cartan matrices for restricted Lie algebras

Consider a finite dimensional restricted Lie algebra over a field of prime characteristic. Each linear form on this Lie algebra defines a finite dimensional quotient of its universal enveloping algebra, called a reduced enveloping algebra. This leads to a Cartan matrix recording the multiplicities as composition factors of the simple modules in the projective indecomposable modules for such a reduced enveloping algebra. In this paper we show how to compare such Cartan matrices belonging to distinct linear forms. As an application we rederive and generalise the reciprocity formula first discovered by Humphreys for Lie algebras of reductive groups. For simple Lie algebras of Cartan type we see, for example, that the Cartan matrices for linear forms of non-positive height are submatrices of the Cartan matrix for the zero linear form.     

DG Poisson algebra and its universal enveloping algebra

We introduce the notions of differential graded (DG) Poisson algebra and DG Poisson module. Let A be any DG Poisson algebra. We construct the universal enveloping algebra of A explicitly, which is denoted by A^ue. We show that A^ue has a natural DG algebra structure and it satisfies certain universal property. As a consequence of the universal property, it is proved that the category of DG Poisson modules over A is isomorphic to the category of DG modules over A^ue. Furthermore, we prove that the notion of universal enveloping algebra A^ue is well-behaved under opposite algebra and tensor product of DG Poisson algebras. Practical examples of DG Poisson algebras are given throughout the paper including those arising from differential geometry and homological algebra.     

Finite Presentability and the Homological Type FP m for a Class of Hopf Algebras

We define and study the property finite presentability in the category  of Hopf algebras that are smash product of universal enveloping algebra of a Lie algebra by a group algebra. We show that for such Hopf algebras finite presentability is equivalent with finite presentability as an associative k-algebra.     

Composition-diamond lemma for modules

We investigate the relationship between the Gröbner-Shirshov bases in free associative algebras, free left modules and “double-free” left modules (that is, free modules over a free algebra). We first give Chibrikov’s Composition-Diamond lemma for modules and then we show that Kang-Lee’s Composition-Diamond lemma follows from it. We give the Gröbner-Shirshov bases for the following modules: the highest weight module over a Lie algebra sl ₂, the Verma module over a Kac-Moody algebra, the Verma module over the Lie algebra of coefficients of a free conformal algebra, and a universal enveloping module for a Sabinin algebra. As applications, we also obtain linear bases for the above modules.     

Non-weight representations of Cartan type S Lie algebras

For the two Cartan type S subalgebras of the Witt algebra 𝒲_n, called Lie algebras of divergence-zero vector fields, we determine all module structures on the universal enveloping algebra of their Cartan subalgebra 𝔥_n. We also give all submodules of these modules.     

On subtractive varieties,I

A varietyV is subtractive if it obeys the laws s(x, x)=0, s(x, 0)=x for some binary terms and constant 0. This means thatV has 0-permutable congruences (namely [0]R ºS=[0]S ºR for any congruencesR, S of any algebra inV). We present the basic features of such varieties, mainly from the viewpoint of ideal theory. Subtractivity does not imply congruence modularity, yet the commutator theory for ideals works fine. We characterize i-Abelian algebras, (i.e. those in which the commutator is identically 0). In the appendix we consider the case of a classical ideal theory (comprising: groups, loops, rings, Heyting and Boolean algebras, even with multioperators and virtually all algebras coming from logic) and we characterize the corresponding class of subtractive varieties.Presented by A. F. Pixley.     

Lie metabelian restricted universal enveloping algebras

We characterize the restricted Lie algebras L whose restricted universal enveloping algebra u(L) is Lie metabelian. Moreover, we show that the last condition is equivalent to u(L) being strongly Lie metabelian.Received: 1 October 2004     

Restricted Comtrans Algebras over Small Odd Primes

Comtrans algebras, as analogues of Lie algebras, provide tangent bundle structure corresponding to web geometry in a manifold. In this article, restricted comtrans algebras over rings of small odd prime characteristic are introduced, as analogues of restricted Lie algebras. It is shown that their representations are equivalent to modules over a restricted universal enveloping algebra.     

Braided doubles and rational Cherednik algebras

We introduce and study a large class of algebras with triangular decomposition which we call braided doubles. Braided doubles provide a unifying framework for classical and quantum universal enveloping algebras and rational Cherednik algebras. We classify braided doubles in terms of quasi-Yetter-Drinfeld (QYD) modules over Hopf algebras which turn out to be a generalisation of the ordinary Yetter-Drinfeld modules. To each braiding (a solution to the braid equation) we associate a QYD-module and the corresponding braided Heisenberg double—this is a quantum deformation of the Weyl algebra where the role of polynomial algebras is played by Nichols-Woronowicz algebras. Our main result is that any rational Cherednik algebra canonically embeds in the braided Heisenberg double attached to the corresponding complex reflection group.     

Embeddings of universal algebras into simple ones

This paper is concerned with the question which conditions imply the embeddability of an algebra of a varietyV into a simple algebra ofV. It is shown that this problem can be solved by using the concept of polynomial algebras and furthermore that polynomial algebras are in a certain sense most appropriate in order to deal with this question. The applicability of this method is exhibited by examples concerning varieties of groups and rings.Presented by L. Fuchs.     

q-Wedge Modules for Quantized Enveloping Algebras of Classical Type

We use the fusion construction in twisted quantum affine algebras to obtain a unified method to deform the wedge product for classical Lie algebras. As a by-product we uniformly realize all non-spin fundamental modules for quantized enveloping algebras of classical types, and show that they admit natural crystal bases as modules for the (derived) twisted quantum affine algebra. These crystal bases are parametrized in terms of the q-wedge products.     

Realization of Poisson enveloping algebra

For a Poisson algebra, the category of Poisson modules is equivalent to the module category of its Poisson enveloping algebra, where the Poisson enveloping algebra is an associative one. In this article, for a Poisson structure on a polynomial algebra S, we first construct a Poisson algebra R, then prove that the Poisson enveloping algebra of S is isomorphic to the specialization of the quantized universal enveloping algebra of R, and therefore, is a deformation quantization of R.     

Gelfand–Kirillov dimension of generalized Weyl algebras (In memory of Guenter Rudolf Krause (1941–2015))

Given a generalized Weyl algebra A of degree 1 with the base algebra D, we prove that the difference of the Gelfand–Kirillov dimension of A and that of D could be any positive integer or infinity. Under mild conditions, this difference is exactly 1. As applications, we calculate the Gelfand–Kirillov dimensions of various algebras of interest, including the (quantized) Weyl algebras, ambiskew polynomial rings, noetherian (generalized) down-up algebras, iterated Ore extensions, quantum Heisenberg algebras, universal enveloping algebras of Lie algebras, quantum GWAs, etc.     

Wakimoto modules, opers and the center at the critical level

Wakimoto modules are representations of affine Kac-Moody algebras in Fock modules over infinite-dimensional Heisenberg algebras. In this paper, we present the construction of the Wakimoto modules from the point of view of the vertex algebra theory. We then use Wakimoto modules to identify the center of the completed universal enveloping algebra of an affine Kac-Moody algebra at the critical level with the algebra of functions on the space of opers for the Langlands dual group on the punctured disc, giving another proof of the theorem of B. Feigin and the author.     

Co-Poisson structures on polynomial Hopf algebras

The Hopf dual H° of any Poisson Hopf algebra H is proved to be a co-Poisson Hopf algebra provided H is noetherian. Without noetherian assumption, unlike it is claimed in literature, the statement does not hold. It is proved that there is no nontrivial Poisson Hopf structure on the universal enveloping algebra of a non-abelian Lie algebra. So the polynomial Hopf algebra, viewed as the universal enveloping algebra of a finite-dimensional abelian Lie algebra, is considered. The Poisson Hopf structures on polynomial Hopf algebras are exactly linear Poisson structures. The co-Poisson structures on polynomial Hopf algebras are characterized. Some correspondences between co-Poisson and Poisson structures are also established.     

Koszul Duality for Semidirect Products and Generalized Takiff Algebras

We obtain Koszul-type dualities for categories of graded modules over a graded associative algebra which can be realized as the semidirect product of a bialgebra coinciding with its degree zero part and a graded module algebra for the latter. In particular, this applies to graded representations of the universal enveloping algebra of the Takiff Lie algebra (or the truncated current algebra) and its (super)analogues, and also to semidirect products of quantum groups with braided symmetric and exterior module algebras in case the latter are flat deformations of classical ones.     

Algebras with a compatible uniformity

Given a variety of algebras V, we study categories of algebras in V with a compatible structure of uniform space. The lattice of compatible uniformities of an algebra, Unif A, can be considered a generalization of the lattice of congruences Con A. Mal'cev properties of V influence the structure of Unif A, much as they do that of Con A. The category V[CHUnif] of complete, Hausdor. such algebras in the variety V is particularly interesting; it has a factorization system , and V embeds into V[CHUnif] in such a way that is the subcategory of onto and the subcategory of one-one homomorphisms. Received February 17, 2000; accepted in final form April 1, 2001.     

Almost universal varieties of monoids

The constant mappings onto the unit form a zero subcategory of any category of monoid homomorphisms; a varietyV of monoids isalmost universal if every category of algebras is isomorphic to a class of all nonzero homomorphisms between members ofV. Almost universal monoid varieties are shown to be exactly those varieties containing all commutative monoids in which the identity xⁿyⁿ=(xy)ⁿ fails for every n>1. Almost universal varieties of monoids can also be characterized categorically as the varieties containing all groups with zero as one-object full subcategories.Presented by B. M. Schein.The support of NSERC is gratefully acknowledged.     

Actions in the Category of Precrossed Modules in Lie Algebras

For any object L in the category of precrossed modules in Lie algebras PXLie, we construct the object Act(L), which we call the actor of this object. From this construction, we derive the notions of action, center, semidirect product, derivation, commutator, and abelian precrossed module in PXLie. We show that the notion of action is equivalent to the one given in semi-abelian categories, and Act(L) is the split extension classifier for L. In the case of a crossed module in Lie algebras we show how to recover its actor in the category of crossed modules from its actor in the category of precrossed modules.