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S Dec 24, 2016 at 15:52 history suggested Konstantinos Kanakoglou CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 4, 2009 at 3:16 vote accept José Figueroa-O'Farrill
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Nov 1, 2009 at 6:35 history edited José Figueroa-O'Farrill CC BY-SA 2.5
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Nov 1, 2009 at 6:16 comment added José Figueroa-O'Farrill More space than allowed in a comment, but I will add it to the main body of the question. I hope that's alright.
Oct 31, 2009 at 23:44 comment added Theo Johnson-Freyd Would it take too much space for you to describe/define the space U(L) and its algebra and coalgebra structures?
Oct 30, 2009 at 2:35 comment added José Figueroa-O'Farrill Continuing with the above comment... n-Lie algebras are n-ary generalizations of Lie algebras, with which they agree for n=2. They appeared originally for n=3 in work of Nambu on generalised hamiltonian dynamics. There's a canonical metric 3-Lie algebra (albeit infinite-dimensional) attached to every oriented compact 3-manifold, for example. Underlying every n-Lie (or more generally n-Leibniz) algebra is a Leibniz algebra structure on its n-th tensor power. If you forgive pointing to a paper of mine, you can read about this in arxiv.org/abs/0903.4871 and references therein.
Oct 30, 2009 at 2:30 comment added José Figueroa-O'Farrill They were introduced by Loday in his book on Cyclic Cohomology, but that's not where I have met them. The most recent place I have met them is in the study of n-Lie algebras, which was prompted by some recent developments in the gauge/gravity correspondence. Essentially, metric n-Lie algebras (and more generally metric n-Leibniz algebras) are used in formulating some three-dimensional superconformal field theories with desirable properties. This started with work of Bagger and Lambert (check the hep-th arXiv if you are interested) in 2006/7, with a minor explosion of activity in 2008/9.
Oct 29, 2009 at 19:37 comment added S. Carnahan I'm curious: where do Leibniz algebras show up in mathematics?
Oct 29, 2009 at 16:06 history asked José Figueroa-O'Farrill CC BY-SA 2.5