1. Introduction
Over a field of characteristic
, the theory of Lie superalgebras has had noticeable development in recent years [
1,
2,
3,
4,
5]. For example, one author classified the finite dimensional simple Lie superalgebras and infinite-dimensional simple linearly compact Lie superalgebras [
1,
2]. Nevertheless, there is an open problem about the complete classification of the finite-dimensional simple modular Lie superalgebras (i.e., Lie superalgebras over a field of prime characteristic) [
6]. In the last decade, there has been notable development in the study of modular Lie superalgebras, especially in the structures and representations of simple modular Lie superalgebras of Cartan type. The eight families of finite-dimensional simple modular Lie superalgebras
, and
are discussed in [
7,
8,
9,
10,
11]. The superderivation algebras, second cohomologies, filtrations, and representations of the eight families of finite-dimensional Cartan-type simple modular Lie superalgebras have also been investigated (see [
11,
12,
13], for example).
As is well known, the study of derivations is very active because of their importance in Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras. With further research about the theory of derivations, it is therefore natural to begin the investigations of biderivations and commuting maps on Lie algebras [
14,
15,
16,
17,
18,
19,
20]. The research of biderivations goes back to the investigation of the commuting mapping in the associative ring, which showed that all biderivations on commutative prime rings were inner [
21]. In particular, the notations of super-biderivations and skew-symmetric super-biderivations was introduced in [
22,
23]. The skew-symmetric super-biderivations of any perfect and centerless Lie algebras or Lie superalgebras were proved to be inner in [
24]. Meanwhile, applications for and results on biderivations and super-biderivations of simple Lie superalgebras arose in [
25]. For example, based on the theory related to super-biderivations, the authors obtained commutative post-Lie superalgebra structures [
26]. The skew-symmetric super-biderivations of generalized Witt Lie superalgebra
were proved to be inner in [
27]. In [
28], there were similar results for contact Lie superalgebra
.
This paper is devoted to studying the super-biderivations of odd contact Lie superalgebra
. And this essay is structured as follows. In
Section 2, we review the basic definitions concerning
. In
Section 3, we get several useful conclusions concerning the skew-symmetric super-biderivations on Lie superalgebras. We use the method of the weight space decomposition of
with respect to
to prove that all skew-symmetric super-biderivation of
are inner in
Section 4 (Theorem 1). Finally, we summarize the important findings in
Section 5.
2. Preliminaries
The fundamental notations concerning the odd contact Lie superalgebras
are reviewed in this section [
22].
denotes an algebraically closed field of characteristic , and we all work on field . Let be the additive group of modular 2. For a vector superspace , the symbol means the parity of a homogeneous element , . Let be a Z-graded vector space. Write for the Z-degree of a Z-homogeneous element , . Throughout this paper, we should mention that once the symbol appears, it signifies that x is a -homogeneous (Z-homogeneous) element.
Let be the set of positive integers and be the set of non-negative integers. Given , . For two n-tuple and , we write =. Over the field , we call a divided power algebra with generators . For , where is the Kronecker symbol, we abbreviate as , . We call the Grassmann superalgebra with generators . Furthermore, we write for the tensor product .
For
and
, we simply write
as
. The formulas hold for
as follows:
For
}, we set
and
, where
. For
, set
and
and
. It is obvious that
is an
-basis of
.
Obviously,
is an associative superalgebra with a
Z-gradation:
where
Let and . Put .
Let
be the linear transformations of
such that
Then it is easy to see that
are derivations of the superalgebra
, and
=
, where
Then
is an infinite-dimension Lie superalgebra that is contained in
and the following formula holds:
where
,
.
Over the algebraically closed field of characteristic , we choose two n-tuples of positive integers and , where for all .
Let
where
.
Then
is a finite-dimensional simple Lie superalgebra. Note that
possesses a
Z-graded structure:
by letting
and
.
We define the linear operator
as follows:
For
, the formula holds:
where
is the Lie bracket in
.
Then it is easy to show that
is a simple Lie superalgebra. And we call
the odd contact Lie superalgebra. Moreover, the principal
Z-graded is listed below:
where
. In particular,
3. The Notions of Super-Biderivation
The properties of super-biderivations on centerless super-Virasoro algebras were introduced in [
22]. Our aim in this section is to introduce a more-general definition concerning super-biderivations of Lie superalgebras. In order to prove the main conclusions, we need some preparations.
G denotes a Lie algebra over an arbitrary field. A linear mapping
is called a derivation if the following axioms are satisfied:
for all
. And we say a bilinear map
is a biderivation if the following axioms are satisfied:
for all
. Meanwhile, we say a biderivation
is a skew-symmetric biderivation if it satisfies
for all
. Specially, a bilinear map
is an inner biderivation if it satisfies
for all
(see [
22]).
L denotes a Lie superalgebra. Recall that a linear map
D :
is a superderivation of
L if the following axiom is satisfied:
for all
. Meanwhile, we write
(resp.
) for the set of all superderivations of
-degree
(resp.
) of
L.
A -homogeneous bilinear map with -degree of L is a bilinear map such that for any . Specially, we say fits these criteria even if .
Definition 1. A bilinear mapping is a super-biderivation of L if the following axioms are satisfied:for all -homogeneous elements . And we say a biderivation
is a skew-symmetric biderivation if it satisfies:
for all
.
Denote by
the set of all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of
-degree
. It is obvious that
Lemma 1. Let : be a bilinear map with . Then is a skew-symmetric super-biderivation on L if it satisfies for all . This class of super-biderivations is called inner.
Proof. Obviously, it is easy to obtain that
is an even bilinear map, i.e.,
. By the skew-symmetry of Lie superalgebras, we have
for any
.
Due to the definition of graded Jacobi identity
, we have that
for any
.
Similarly, it follows that
for any
. □
Lemma 2. Let φ be a skew-symmetric super-biderivation on L. Then for any , we have Proof. Due to Definition 1, there are two different ways to compute .
From Equation (
2), we have
According to Equation (3), one gets
Comparing the two sides of the above two equations, we have that
According to the above equation, it can be easily seen that
On the one hand, one goes
On the other hand, it is easy to see that
Due to
, we have that
Furthermore, we obtain
□
Lemma 3. If for any , then we have Proof. By Lemma 2, it is easily seen that
Since
, we have
Thus, we obtain □
Lemma 4. Let be the centralizer of . If , then we have .
Proof. If
, for any
, we obtain
So we get . □
4. Skew-Symmetric Super-Biderivations of
In this section, we prove that all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of are inner. For simplicity, we write for . In order to prove the main theory, we need some preparations.
Set
. It is easy to see that
is an abelian subalgebra of
. From Equation (
1), for all
, we have
where
For fixed
and
, we define a linear function
by means of
Therefore,
has a weight-space decomposition with respect to
:
where
Not specifically, denotes a -homogeneous skew-symmetric super-biderivation on in the proof below.
Lemma 5. If for , we have .
Proof. By applying Lemma 4, we obtain that . As is a simple Lie superalgebra, . □
Lemma 6. For and , we have Proof. By applying Lemma 5, it is obvious that
for any
from
. Note that
for all
. For
, one gets
□
Lemma 7. Let . Then the statements below hold:where denotes some integer, and . Proof. (
i) We may choose a fixed element
. By applying (
1), we can directly obtain that
for any
. From Equation (4), we get
for any
. If
, then
. If
, it is easy to see that
. Then we obtain the desired result.
(
) We also choose a fixed element
. A straightforward computation proves that
for any
. Equation (4) then yields
for any
. If
, it is easily seen that
. If
, we have that
. Then the assertion follows.
() The proof is similar to (i) and (). □
Lemma 8. For any , , we havewhere depends on i. Proof. (
i) For
, according to Equality (6), one may assume that
where
. By Lemma 5, we have that
So we can conclude that
if
. Then, we may suppose that
Putting
, we obtain
where
. Hence,
if
or
by calculating the above equation. Therefore, we assume that
Since
for any
and Lemma 2, we have that
Based on computing the above equation, we deduce that
if
. Then, we suppose that
Put
. By the discussions above, for any
, one gets
where
is dependent on
.
(
) According to Equality (5), for
, we may assume that
where
. By Lemma 5, it is easily seen that
A simple calculation shows that
if
. Then, we may assume that
Setting
, one gets
By calculating the above equation, we have
if
or
. Then, we can suppose that
Based on computing the above equation, we obtain that
if
or
. Then, we assume that
Put
. By the discussions above, for any
, we conclude that
where
depends on
i. And our assertion is affirmed. □
Lemma 9. All -homogeneous skew-symmetric super-biderivations of are even.
Proof. Due to Lemma 8, all -homogeneous skew-symmetric super-biderivations of are even mapping. Since and have the same -degree, the -degree of is even. □
Lemma 10. For , , we havewhere . Proof. By virtue of Equality (7), we may assume that
By a direct computation, we have that
if
. Then, we may assume that
By Lemma 5, for
, one gets
Hence,
if
or
by calculating the equation above. Then, we assume that
By Lemmas 2 and 10, we have
Based on computing the above equation, we have that
if
,
or
. So we suppose that
By Lemmas 2 and 8, we have
Remark 1. For , we have . Due to Lemmas 8 and 10, one getsThus, we deduce that for . Set . By a direct computation, we can conclude thatwhere λ is dependent on neither i nor j. Lemma 11. For any , we have that Proof. By Lemmas 2 and 5, and Remark 1, for
, we have
Since
, one gets
where
. By virtue of Lemma 7, it follows that
. So we obtain
. Furthermore, we conclude that
□
Theorem 1. Let be the odd contact Lie superalgebra over an algebraically closed field of characteristic . Then, we have Proof. By Lemma 2 and Remark 1, it is follows that
for any
.
Because of
, we have
Due to Lemmas 2 and 11, it is easily seen that
Since
, we obtain
. Furthermore, we conclude that
for any
. Therefore, we prove that
is an inner super-biderivation. □
5. Conclusions
In this section, we summarize the important findings.
Firstly, Definition 1 and Lemmas 2 and 3 are a more-general definition and properties for skew-symmetric super-biderivations. Meanwhile, they are very helpful tools to prove all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of are inner super-biderivations.
Thereafter, we obtain the weight space decomposition with respect to . Lemmas 7–9 and Remark 1 show that is dependent on neither i nor j. Thus, we obtain Lemma 11.
Lastly, we prove that all skew-symmetric super-biderivations of are inner super-biderivations (Theorem 1) by the results above.