On Two Theorems about Symplectic Reflection Algebras

We give a new proof and an improvement of two Theorems of J. Alev, M.A. Farinati, T. Lambre and A.L. Solotar [1] : the first one about Hochschild cohomology spaces of some twisted bimodules of the Weyl Algebra W, and the second one about Hochschild cohomology spaces of the smash product G * W (G a finite subgroup of SP (2n)) and, as a consequence, we then give a new proof of a Theorem of P. Etingof and V. Ginzburg (Invent Math 147:243–348, 2002), which shows that the Symplectic Reflection Algebras are deformations of G * W (and, in fact, all possible ones). Dedicated to my friend J.-C. Cortet.     

Back to the Amitsur–Levitzki Theorem: a Super Version for the Orthosymplectic Lie Superalgebra $${\mathfrak{o}}{\mathfrak{s}}{\mathfrak{p}}\left( {1,2n} \right)$$

We prove an Amitsur–Levitzki type theorem for the Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak{o}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}\left( {1,2n} \right)$ ) inspired by Kostant's cohomological interpretation of the classical theorem. We show that the Lie superalgebras $\mathfrak{g}\mathfrak{l}\left( {p,q} \right)$ cannot satisfy an Amitsur–Levitzki type super identity if pq≠0 and conjecture that neither can any other classical simple Lie superalgebra with the exception of $\mathfrak{o}\mathfrak{s}\mathfrak{p}\left( {1,2n} \right)$ .     

Quantization of Poisson-Lie groups and applications

LetG be a connected Poisson-Lie group. We discuss aspects of the question of Drinfel'd:can G be quantized? and give some answers. WhenG is semisimple (a case where the answer isyes), we introduce quantizable Poisson subalgebras ofC ^∞(G), related to harmonic analysis onG; they are a generalization of F.R.T. models of quantum groups, and provide new examples of quantized Poisson algebras.     

A New Invariant of Quadratic Lie Algebras

We define a new invariant of quadratic Lie algebras and give a complete study and classification of singular quadratic Lie algebras, i.e. those for which the invariant does not vanish. The classification is related to O(n)-adjoint orbits in $\mathfrak{o}(n)$ .     

Noncommutative Deformation Theory

In Gerstenhaber's classical theory of deformations, the deformation parameter commutes with the original algebra. Motivated by some non classical deformations which recently appeared for quantization of Nambu mechanics, we introduce new deformations where the parameter no longer commutes with the original algebra. We find the associated cohomology and Gerstenhaber algebra and give rigidity and integrability criterions. We show that the Weyl algebra (though rigid in classical theory) can be nontrivially deformed, in super-commutative theory, to the supersymmetry enveloping algebra      

On the Equivalence Between Continuous and Differential Deformation Theories

We show that continuous and differential deformation theories of the algebra of smooth functions on are the same, and that the same result holds for the algebra of formal series. We show that preferred quantizations of formal groups are always differential.     

A star-product approach to noncompact quantum groups

Using the duality and the topological theory of well-behaved Hopf algebras, we construct star-product models of noncompact quantum groups from Drinfeld and Reshetikhin standard deformations of enveloping Hopf algebras of simple Lie algebras. Our star-products act not only on coefficient functions of finite-dimensional representations, but actually on allC functions, and they even exist for nonlinear (semi-simple) Lie groups.     

The graded Lie algebra structure of Lie superalgebra deformation theory

We show how Lie superalgebra deformation theory can be treated by graded Lie algebras formalism. Rigidity and integrability theorems are obtained.     

A natural and rigid model of quantum groups

We introduce a natural (Fréchet-Hopf) algebra A containing all generic Jimbo algebras U _t (sl(2)) (as dense subalgebras). The Hopf structures on A extend (in a continuous way) the Hopf structures of generic U _t (sl(2)). The Universal R-matrices converge in A A. Using the (topological) dual of A, we recover the formalism of functions of noncommutative arguments. In addition, we show that all these Hopf structures on A are isomorphic (as bialgebras), and rigid in the category of bialgebras.     

Extensions of representations and cohomology

In this article we study the extensions of Banach space representations of a Lie group G. We introduce different spaces of 1-cohomology on G, or on its Lie algebra $\text{G}$, and make the connection between these spaces and the equivalence (or weak equivalence) classes of extensions.We characterize, from the properties of the 1-cohomology groups, the spaces of differentiable and analytic vectors of an extension and prove a kind of Whitehead's lemma.For Lie groups with a large compact subgroup K, we specialize to K-finite representations, and introduce and study Naimark equivalence of extensions.The results are applied to classify the extensions of the irreducible representations of $\text{G =}\text{SL}\text{(2,}\text{R}\text{)}$.