Abstract
In this paper, we introduce two-term differential -conformal algebras and give characterizations of some particular classes of such two-term differential -conformal algebras. Furthermore, we discuss the classification of the non-Abelian extensions in terms of non-Abelian cohomology groups. Finally, we explore the inducibility of pairs of automorphisms and derive the analog Wells exact sequences under the circumstance of differential Leibniz conformal algebras.
Keywords:
differential Leibniz conformal algebra; cohomology; crossed module; non-Abelian extension; Wells exact sequences MSC:
17B10; 17B38; 17B56; 18G45
1. Introduction
Kac in [1] has proposed Lie conformal algebras, usually considered as an axiomatic description of the singular part of the operator product expansion of chiral fields in conformal field theory. The past few years have witnessed considerable scholarly attention to this algebraic structure in the past few years because they are closely related to vertex algebras [2]. Many more properties and structures of Lie conformal algebras have been developed; see [3,4,5,6,7] and references cited therein.
Leibniz conformal algebras were introduced in [8], which are closely related to field algebras [9] and vertex algebras. Later, the author further elaborated upon and elucidated the concept of a conformal representation of a Leibniz algebra in [10]. After that, Zhang introduced the cohomology of Leibniz conformal algebras in [11] and Wu articulated the notion of a Leibniz pseudoalgebra, which is a multivariable generalization of the concept of Leibniz conformal algebras in [12]. Recently, Feng and Chen studied -operators, also known as relative Rota–Baxter operators on Leibniz conformal algebras with respect to representations in [13]. Subsequently, the first author and Wang investigated some properties of relative Rota–Baxter operators on Leibniz conformal algebras with respect to representations and their connections with Leibniz dendriform conformal algebras in [14]. For further details on Leibniz conformal algebras, see [15,16]. Recently, the authors [17] introduced -conformal algebras where the Leibniz conformal identity holds up to homotopy. Additionally, they presented equivalent descriptions of -conformal algebras and identified certain characteristics of some particular classes of -conformal algebras in terms of the cohomology of Leibniz conformal algebras and crossed modules of Leibniz conformal algebras as a generalization of [18]. This study would introduce two-term differential -conformal algebra and generalize the common characteristics of some particular classes of such homotopy differential Leibniz conformal algebras, which constitute the major academic focus of this paper.
The extension problem has persisted and incurred scholarly dispute. Non-Abelian extensions were first developed in [19], which induces cohomology to the low dimensional non-Abelian group. The authors examined non-Abelian extensions of Leibniz algebras in [20]. See [21] and references cited therein. Naturally, we look into non-Abelian extensions of a differential Leibniz conformal algebra by another differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Another interesting study linked to extensions of algebraic structures is given by the inducibility of a pair of automorphisms, which, after all, is intimately connected with extensions of algebras. Such a study was first initiated by Wells in extensions of abstract groups in [22]. Later, the authors investigated extending automorphism in [23]. In [24], the authors studied the inducibility of a pair of automorphisms about a non-Abelian extension of Lie algebras. The results of [20,24] have been extended to Rota–Baxter Leibniz algebras in [25]. Naturally, we study the inducibility of a pair of differential Leibniz conformal algebra automorphisms and characterize them by equivalent conditions. This forms the second research focus of this paper.
The paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we recall some basic definitions of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. In Section 3, we introduce homotopy differential operators on two-term -conformal algebras. A two-term -conformal algebra equipped with a homotopy differential operators is called a two-term differential -conformal algebra, and we give characterizations of some particular classes of such two-term differential -conformal algebras. In Section 4, we introduce non-Abelian cohomology groups and classify the non-Abelian extensions in terms of non-Abelian cohomology groups. In Section 5, we explore the inducibility of pairs of automorphisms and derive the analog Wells exact sequences under the circumstance of differential Leibniz conformal algebras.
2. Preliminaries
Throughout the paper, all algebraic systems are supposed to be over a field . We denote by the set of all integers and the set of all nonnegative integers. We now recall some useful definitions in [8,11,26].
Definition 1.
A Leibniz conformal algebra is a -module R endowed with a λ-bracket , which defines a -bilinear map from to such that the following axioms hold:
for any .
Definition 2.
A representation of a Leibniz conformal algebra R is a -module R endowed with left and right λ-actions, which are two -linear maps
that satisfy the following conditions:
for any and .
It follows that any Leibniz conformal algebra R is a representation of itself with
Here, and denote the left and right -bracket on R by x, respectively. This is called the regular representation.
Let R be a Leibniz conformal algebra and V a representation of R. For , an n--bracket on R with coefficients in V is a -linear map denoted by
satisfying the following sesquilinearity conditions:
Let . For , let be the space of all n--brackets on R with coefficients in V. Define as the space of all poly -brackets.
For , , define
The cohomology of this complex denoted by is called the cohomology of the Leibniz conformal algebra R with coefficients in a representation V.
Let R be a Leibniz conformal algebra. Recall that a -linear map is called a differential operator such that
One denotes by the set of differential operators of the Leibniz conformal algebra R.
Definition 3.
A differential Leibniz conformal algebra is a Leibniz conformal algebra R with a differential operator . One denotes it by .
Definition 4.
Given two differential Leibniz conformal algebras , a homomorphism of differential Leibniz conformal algebras from to is a Leibniz conformal algebra homomorphism such that .
Definition 5.
Let be a differential Leibniz conformal algebra.
- (i)
- A representation over the differential Leibniz conformal algebra is a pair , where , and V is a representation over the Leibniz conformal algebra R, such that for all the following equalities hold:
- (ii)
- Given two representations over , a conformal linear map is called a homomorphism of representations, if and
Define the set of n-cochains by
For , we define a linear map by
for any and
Define by
Then, for , we define by
for any and . The cohomology of the cochain complex , denoted by , is called the cohomology of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra with coefficients in the representation .
3. Crossed Modules and Two-Term Differential -Conformal Algebras
In this section, we introduce homotopy differential operators on two-term -conformal algebras. A two-term -conformal algebra equipped with a homotopy differential operator is called a two-term differential -conformal algebra. We show that skeletal two-term differential -conformal algebras correspond to the third cocycles of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Next, we introduce crossed modules of differential Leibniz conformal algebras and show that crossed modules of differential Leibniz conformal algebras correspond to strict two-term differential -conformal algebras.
Definition 6
([17]). A two-term -conformal algebra is a triple consisting of a complex of -modules equipped with
- a -linear conformal sesquilinear map , for ,
- a -linear conformal sesquilinear map
that satisfy the following set of identities: for all and ,
Definition 7.
Let be a two-term -conformal algebra. A triple , where and are conformal linear maps and is a conformal bilinear map, is called a homotopy differential operator on , , and for all and ,
A two-term differential -conformal algebra is a two-term -conformal algebra equipped with a homotopy differential operator . We denote a two-term differential -conformal algebra by , or simply by .
Definition 8.
Let be a two-term differential -conformal algebra. It is said to be
- (i)
- Skeletal if ,
- (ii)
- Strict if and .
Theorem 1.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between skeletal two-term differential -conformal algebras and triples of the form , where is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra, is a representation and is a 3-cocycle.
Proof.
Let be a skeletal two-term differential -conformal algebra. Then, according to (Leib5) and (D1), we obtain and operator is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra. On the other hand, by conditions (Leib6), (Leib7), (Leib8), (D2) and (D3), we obtain that is a representation of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra with the left and right -actions
The conditions (Leib9) and (D4) are, respectively, equivalent to
Thus, is a 3-cocycle.
Conversely, given a triple as in the statement, define conformal bilinear maps by
for . Then, is a skeletal two-term differential -conformal algebra. □
Next, we introduce crossed modules of differential Leibniz-conformal algebras and characterize strict two-term differential -conformal algebras.
Definition 9.
A crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras consists of , where and are differential Leibniz conformal algebras, is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra homomorphism, and , , and make into a representation of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra satisfying
for any .
Proposition 1.
Let be a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Then, is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra, where the bracket is
for any .
Proof.
Since are both Leibniz conformal algebras and is a representation of , then we have that is a Leibniz conformal algebra. Moreover, for any , we have
This shows that the map is a differential operator. And the proof is finished. □
Theorem 2.
There is a one-to-one correspondence between strict two-term differential -conformal algebras and crossed modules of differential Leibniz conformal algebras.
Proof.
Let be a strict two-term differential -conformal algebra. Then, according to (Leib5) and (D1), we obtain , and operator is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra. Next, we define by , for any . By conditions (Leib6) and (D3), we obtain that is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra. On the other hand, the condition (Leib2) implies that is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra morphism. Finally, we define
Then, we obtain that is a representation of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra ; by the conditions (Leib9) and (D4), we also have
for any . Thus, is a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras.
Conversely, let be a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Define conformal bilinear maps by
for . Hence, is a strict two-term differential -conformal algebra. □
Combining Proposition 1 and Theorem 2, we obtain the following result.
Proposition 2.
Let be a strict two-term differential -conformal algebra. Then, is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra, where the bracket is
for any .
Example 1.
Let be a differential Leibniz conformal algebra. Then, is a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Therefore, it follows that
is a strict two-term differential -conformal algebra.
Example 2.
Let and be a differential Leibniz conformal algebras, let be a differential Leibniz conformal algebra morphism and let be the inclusion map. Then, is a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras.
4. Non-Abelian Extension of Differential Leibniz Conformal Algebras
In this section, we study non-Abelian extensions of a differential Leibniz conformal algebra by another differential Leibniz conformal algebra.
Definition 10.
Let and be two differential Leibniz conformal algebras. A non-Abelian extension of by is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra equipped with a short exact sequence of differential Leibniz conformal algebras
Definition 11.
Let and be two non-Abelian extensions of by . They are said to be equivalent if there is a morphism of differential Leibniz conformal algebras making the following diagram commutative:
The set of all equivalence classes of non-Abelian extensions of by is denoted by .
Example 3.
Let be a crossed module of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Then, the exact sequence
is a non-Abelian extension of by .
We denote the set of equivalence classes of non-Abelian 2-cocycles by .
Let be a non-Abelian extension of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra by as of (2). A section of p is a linear map that satisfies . We define conformal maps and by
Further, we define by the bracket
with the conformal linear map
Lemma 1.
With the above notations, is a Leibniz conformal algebra if and only if satisfy the following conditions:
Proof.
For any , we have
Similar, we have
Further, assume that is a Leibniz conformal algebra. By
we deduce that (4) holds. By
we deduce that (5) holds. Similar to deduce that (6) holds. By
we deduce that (7) holds. Similarly, we deduce that (8)–(9) hold. By
we deduce that (10) holds.
Conversely, if (4)–(10) hold, it is straightforward to see that is a Leibniz conformal algebra. The proof is finished. □
Lemma 2.
The maps defined above satisfy the following compatible conditions: for all and ,
Proof.
For any , we have
and we deduce that (11) holds. Further, for any and , we have
This means Equation (12) is satisfied. Similarly, one can check that Equation (13) holds. □
Definition 12.
- (i)
- Let and be two differential Leibniz conformal algebras. A non-Abelian 2-cocycle of with values in is a quadruple of conformal linear maps and satisfying the conditions (4)–(13).
- (ii)
- Let and be two non-Abelian 2-cocycles of with values in . They are said to be equivalent if there exists a conformal linear map that satisfies
We denote the set of equivalence classes of non-Abelian 2-cocycles by .
With the above notations, we obtain the following result.
Theorem 3.
Let and be two differential Leibniz conformal algebras. Then, the set of equivalence classes of non-Abelian extensions of by is classified by . In other words,
Proof.
Let and be two equivalent extensions of by . If is a section of the map p, then it is easy to observe that the map is a section of the map . Let be the non-Abelian 2-cocycle corresponding to the non-Abelian extension with section , for any , we have
Similarly, and . This shows that . Hence they give rise to the same element in . Therefore, there is a well-defined map .
Conversely, let be a non-Abelian 2-cocycle on with values in . Define with the bracket
and the conformal linear map
According to the conditions (4)–(10), it can be easily verified that E is a Leibniz conformal algebra. Moreover, we observe that
This shows that is a differential operator on the Leibniz conformal algebra E. In other words, is a differential Leibniz conformal algebra. Further, it is easy to see that
is a non-Abelian extension of the differential Leibniz conformal algebra by .
Let and be two equivalent 2-cocycles. Thus, there exists a conformal linear map such that the identities (14)–(17) hold. Let be a differential Leibniz conformal algebra induced by the 2-cocycle . We define a map by for all . Then, we have
This is similar to checking that . Hence, the map defines an equivalence between two non-Abelian extensions. Therefore, we obtain a well-defined map . Finally, it is straightforward to verify that the maps and are inverse to each to each other. This completes the proof. □
5. Automorphisms of Differential Leibniz Conformal Algebras and the Wells Map
In this section, we study the inducibility of a pair of differential Leibniz conformal algebra automorphisms and characterize them by equivalent conditions.
Let and be two differential Leibniz conformal algebras, and let
be a non-Abelian extension of by . Let be the set of all differential automorphisms that satisfy . For any automorphism , then . We define a conformal linear map by
Assume that and are two distinct sections of E, since , , it follows that . Thus, , which indicates that is independent of the choice of a section.
For all , we have
Further,
which yields that is a homomorphism of differential Leibni- conformal algebras. It is easy to check that is bijective. Thus, . Then, we can define a group homomorphism
Definition 13.
A pair is said to be inducible if is an image of Λ.
Below, we investigate when a pair is inducible.
Let be a non-Abelian extension of by and be the corresponding non-Abelian 2-cocycle induced by a section s of E. Given any pair . Define conformal maps respectively, by
for all .
Proposition 3.
With the above notations, is a non-Abelian 2-cocycle.
Proof.
Let be a non-Abelian extension of by . Suppose that is the corresponding non-Abelian 2-cocycle induced by a section s. Define a linear map by
It is remarkable that the map W is not a group homomorphism in general. The map W is also said to be the Wells map.
Theorem 4.
Let be a non-Abelian extension of by and let be the corresponding non-Abelian 2-cocycle induced by a section s. A pair is inducible if and only if .
Proof.
Suppose that is inducible; then, there is an automorphism such that and . For all , since s is a section of p, that is, ,
which implies that . So we can define a conformal linear map by
For , we have
Hence, we obtain (15). Similarly, by direct calculations, we observe that (14), (16), (17) hold. It follows from the above observation that the non-Abelian 2-cocycles and are equivalent via the conformal linear map . Hence, we have
Conversely, suppose that , Since , it follows that the non-Abelian 2-cocycles and are equivalent, there is a conformal linear map satisfying (14)–(17). Due to s being a section of p, then for all can be written as for some Define a conformal linear map by
If then and . In view of s and being injective, we obtain ; it follows that . Thus, ; that is, is injective. For any ,
which yields that is surjective. In all, is bijective.
Next, we show that is a homomorphism of differential Leibniz conformal algebras. In fact, for all ,
Similarly, one can check that . This proves that is an automorphism of differential Leibniz-conformal algebras. Thus, . Finally, we show that and . In fact,
and
Therefore, and . Thus, is inducible. □
Theorem 5.
Let be a non-Abelian extension of by . Then there is an exact sequence
where .
Proof.
Obviously, and is injective. By Theorem 6.3, one can easily check that . This completes the proof. □
More generally, if we define
we obtain two morphisms of groups and . Define the maps and by
Proposition 4.
Let be a non-Abelian extension of by . Then, there are two exact sequences of groups
Author Contributions
H.W. and S.G.: Writing—original draft (equal). X.Z.: Writing—review editing (equal). All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
The paper is supported the Guizhou Provincial Basic Research Program (Natural Science) (No. ZK[2021]006), the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 12161013 and 12271292), and the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (No. 2023MA008).
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