Abstract
The rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra can be viewed as a generalization of the twisted Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra. Lie bialgebras play an important role in searching for solutions of quantum Yang–Baxter equations. It is interesting to study the Lie bialgebra structures on the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra. Since the Lie brackets of rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra are different from that of the twisted Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra and Virasoro-like algebras, and there are inner derivations (from itself to its tensor space) which are hidden more deeply in its interior algebraic structure, some new techniques and strategies are employed in this paper. It is proved that every Lie bialgebra structure on the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra is triangular coboundary.
MSC:
17B05; 17B37; 17B62; 17B68
1. Introduction
Lie bialgebras as well as their quantizations provide important tools in searching for solutions of quantum Yang–Baxter equations and in producing new quantum groups (see, e.g., [1,2]). Thus, a number of papers were published on the structure theory of Lie bialgebras (see, e.g., [3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18]). Witt and Virasoro type Lie bialgebras were introduced in [3], which were further classified in [4]. The generalized Witt type was studied in [5]. Lie bialgebra structures on generalized Virasoro-like and the q-analog Virasoro-like algebra were considered in [6] and [7], respectively. The same problem on the twisted Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra was determined in [8]. Recently, quantizations of Lie bialgebras, duality involution, and oriented graph complexes were investigated in [19].
In this paper, we are interested in considering Lie bialgebra structures on the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra, which can be viewed as a generalization of the twisted Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra (see [20,21] for details). However, Lie brackets of these two algebras are different. The rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra is a Lie algebra spanned by elements of the form , together with the following Lie bracket relations:
where , , and . The derivation, automorphism group and central extension for were studied in [20]. The universal Whittaker modules for were discussed in [21], where the irreducibility of the universal Whittaker modules was determined. The Verma module structure for was characterized in [22]. This Lie algebra is different from Virasoro-like algebras in that has one more type of generator than Virasoro-like algebras. Thus, some new techniques or strategies need to be employed as can be seen in the proof of Lemma 5 (see pages 12–14 for details). This is one of our motivations. Furthermore, due to the fact that, compared with Virasoro-like algebras, there are inner derivations (from itself to its tensor space) which are hidden more deeply in its interior algebraic structure, we must apply some new techniques (see pages 5–11 for details) to search for these deeply hidden inner derivations by thorough observations and deep considerations. Therefore, the determination of Lie bialgebra structures on the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra is attractive and more complicated compared with Virasoro-like algebras.
We introduce two degree derivations and on , i.e.,
Then, we arrive at the Lie algebra , which is still called the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra. The Lie algebra has a natural -gradation:
where
We shall investigate Lie bialgebra structures on the Lie algebra in this paper.
Now, we recall some definitions related to Lie bialgebras (see [1,2,3,9]). For any vector space , denote by the twist map of , namely, and by the cyclic map of cyclically permuting the coordinates, i.e., for any . Then, the definition of a Lie algebra can be stated as follows. A Lie algebra is a pair of a vector space and a linear map with which the following conditions are satisfied:
where 1 denotes the identity map on . The operator is usually called the bracket of . Dually, a Lie coalgebra is a pair of a vector space and a linear map satisfying
The map is called the cobracket of . For a Lie algebra , we always use the symbol “” to stand for the diagonal adjoint action:
and in general, for any .
Definition 1
([1,2,3,9]). A Lie bialgebra is a triple such that is a Lie algebra, is a Lie coalgebra, and the following compatible condition holds:
Note that the compatibility condition (2) is equivalent to saying that is a derivation.
Definition 2
([1,2,3,9]). A coboundary Lie bialgebra is an , where is a Lie bialgebra and such that is a coboundary of , i.e., . For any , is defined by
Denote by the universal enveloping algebra of and by 1 the identity element of . For any , define to be the elements of by
and .
Definition 3
([1,2,3,9]). A coboundary Lie bialgebra is called triangular if satisfies the following classical Yang–Baxter equation (CYBE):
The main result of this paper can be formulated as follows.
Theorem 1.
Every Lie bialgebra structure on is triangular coboundary.
Throughout the paper, we denote by and the sets of the complex numbers, and the integers, respectively. All vector spaces mentioned in this paper are over the complex field .
2. Proof of the Main Results
The aim of this section is to give a proof of Theorem 1. The first one has the following result which comes from [2].
Lemma 1
([2]). Let be a Lie algebra. Then, (for some ) endows with a Lie bialgebra structure if and only if satisfies the following modified Yang–Baxter equation (MYBE):
Lemma 2.
Regard, the tensor product of 3 copies of , as an-module under the adjoint diagonal action of . If for some and all , then .
Proof .
It is easy to see that is a -graded -module under the adjoint diagonal action of . The gradation is given by , where . Write as a finite sum with . From , , we obtain . Now write
where all the coefficients of the tensor products are complex numbers and the sums are all finite. Fix the normal total order on compatible with its additive group structure. Define the total order on by
Suppose for some . Let
Choose such that , , and . Then, for some ,
is linearly independent with other terms of , a contradiction with the fact that . So, for any . Similarly, we can prove that for any . Furthermore, by , one can obtain for any . The lemma is proved. □
As a conclusion of Lemma 2, we immediately obtain:
Corollary 1.
An elementsatisfies the CYBE in (4) if and only if it satisfies the MYBE in (5).
Regard as an -module under the adjoint diagonal action. Denote by the set of derivations , i.e., is a linear map such that
and , the set consisting of the inner derivations , , is defined by
Denote as the first cohomology group of the Lie algebra with coefficients in the -module , then
Proposition 1.
, i.e.,.
Proof .
It is clear that is -graded with
A derivation is homogeneous of degree if for all . Denote by for .
Let . For , we define a homogeneous linear map of degree as follows: For any with , write with . Then, we set . It is obvious that and we have
which holds in the sense that for every , only finitely many , and (we call such a sum in (7) summable). □
We shall divide the proof of the proposition into several lemmas.
Lemma 3.
If , then.
Proof .
Denote and define the nondegenerate bilinear map from , for , . Now, for , by linear algebra, one can choose with . Denote . Then, for any ,, applying to , using , we have
i.e., . Then, is inner. □
Lemma 4.
.
Proof .
For any , applying to , we have
i.e., . Thus by Lemma 2, . □
Lemma 5.
Replacingby for some , one can suppose , i.e.,.
The proof of this lemma will be carried out by two claims.
Claim 1.
By replacing by for some , we can suppose for .
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Note that the following identities hold.
Replacing by , where is a combination of some , , , , , , then can be simplified as follows
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients, one can deduce
Then, we can rewrite (10) as
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Note that
Using the above equations, by replacing by , where is a combination of some , , , , and (this replacement does not affect the above Equations (9) and (11)), one can rewrite (12) as
Applying to , one can deduce
Comparing the coefficients of ,,,, , , , , , , , , , , respectively, we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of , for , respectively, one can deduce
Since for or , the above equations force
Similarly, comparing the coefficients of , , , , , for , respectively, we can obtain
By (14)–(16), we have
Comparing the coefficients of for , one can deduce
Replacing by in (18) for , we obtain
for . Note that is a finite set. We can deduce
Similarly, comparing the coefficients of , , and for , respectively, we can obtain
Comparing the coefficients of for , we obtain
Since is a finite set, we can deduce
Similarly, comparing the coefficients of , , and for , respectively, we can obtain
Now, (9), (11), and (13) become
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Applying to , using (23), we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of , , , and , respectively, we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of for , we have
Since is a finite set, we can obtain
Similarly, comparing the coefficients of , , and for , respectively, we have
Now, we can simplify (24) as
Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , , and , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , , , , , for , respectively, we obtain
Thus, (23) and (25) become
Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , we obtain . Comparing the coefficients of , , , and for , respectively, we deduce
Thus, (23), (26) and (27) become
From (28), we can easily deduce that for .
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of , , , and for , respectively, we have
Since , , , and are finite sets, we deduce
Thus, (29) becomes
Applying to and using (30), we have .
Write
for some , where , , , and are finite sets. Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of , , , and for , respectively, we obtain
Note that , , , and are finite sets, and we deduce
Thus, (31) becomes
Applying to and using (32), we obtain . Applying to , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , , , , , , we obtain
Comparing the coefficients of , , , , we have
Comparing the coefficients of , , , , we deduce
Thus, (30) and (32) become
Using
and (33), we deduce that for . Then, Claim 1 is proved.
Claim 2.
for.
Note that , with can be generated by . From Claim 1, we can easily deduce that for .
By Lemma 4 and Claims 1 and 2, Lemma 5 is proved.
Remark 1.
We use the convention that if an undefined notation appears in an expression, we always treat it as zero. For instance,.
Lemma 6.
For any,is a finite sum, where.
Proof .
By Lemmas 9, 10, and 11, one can suppose for some and . If is an infinite set, by linear algebra, there exists such that for . Then, is an infinite sum, which is not an element in . This is a contradiction with the fact that . This proves the lemma. □
The proof of Proposition 1 is finally completed.
Lemma 7.
Supposesuch thatfor all. Then,.
Proof .
It is obvious that . We shall prove that after a number of steps, by replacing with w-v for some , the zero element is obtained, thus proving that . Write , where . It is clear that
For any , choose such that . Then,
Thus, (35) gives . Replacing by , we can suppose . Now, we can write
for some . Since ,, , are all in , by replacing by , where is a combination of some and , one can suppose
First, assume that for some . Choose such that . Then, we see that the term appears in , but (36) implies that the term does not appear in , a contradiction with the fact that . Thus, we can further suppose that for any . Similarly, we can also suppose that for any . Then, we can simplify as
Since
we have that , . Thus, . Replacing by , then . The lemma is proved. □
We are now in a position to prove Theorem 1.
Proof of Theorem 1.
Let be a Lie bialgebra structure on . By (2), (6), and Proposition 1, is defined by (3) for some . By (1), . Thus, by Lemma 7, . Then, Lemma 1 and Corollary 1 show that . Therefore, Definitions 2 and 3 imply that is a triangular coboundary Lie bialgebra. □
3. Conclusions
Lie bialgebras are closely related to solutions of quantum Yang–Baxter equations. The rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra is a generalization of the twisted Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra. In this paper, all Lie bialgebra structures on the rank two Heisenberg–Virasoro algebra are determined. It is proved that all such Lie bialgebras are triangular coboundary. This result makes sense since dualizing a triangular coboundary Lie bialgebra may produce new Lie algebras (see, e.g., [16]). This will be studied in a sequel.
Lie bialgebra has some applications in physics. For example, the quantum open-closed homotopy algebra was described in the framework of homotopy involutive Lie bialgebras, as a morphism from the loop homotopy Lie algebra of closed strings to the involutive Lie bialgebra on the Hochschild complex of open strings (see [23] for details).
Lie algebras not only have applications in pure mathematics and physics, but also may have applications in other fields, such as the field of fuzzy sets. The reader can refer to [24,25]. Perhaps the concept of Lie bialgebra can also be extended to the field of fuzzy sets, which may be our work to study in the future.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization, methodology, X.C.; writing—original draft preparation, Y.S. and X.C.; validation, Y.S.; writing—review and editing, Y.S. and X.C. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.
Funding
This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant no. 11801477); Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (Grant no. 2017J05016).
Data Availability Statement
The data of the Lie algebra relations used to support the findings of this study are included within the article.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
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