% % file: spb-2011-algsem.tex % purpose: talk at Spb. algebraic seminar at POMI, Apr 25 2011 % "Cohomology of current algebras" % created: pasha apr 21-23 2011 % modified: pasha may 2 2011 % modification: comments % \documentclass{beamer} % to avoid ``No room for a new \dimen'' error % when using xy and other packages simultanesoulsy \usepackage{etex} \usepackage{mathrsfs,amscd} \usepackage[vcentermath,noautoscale]{youngtab} \usepackage{diagrams} % Paul Taylor's diagrams package \usepackage[all]{xy} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % to display sets { ... | ... } \newcommand{\set}[2]{\ensuremath{\{ #1 \>|\> #2 \}}} % to display nicely (.,.) \def\form{\ensuremath{(\,\cdot\, , \cdot\,)}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setbeamertemplate{headline} { \vskip2pt\hskip1pt\insertframenumber / \inserttotalframenumber } \setbeamertemplate{navigation symbols}{} \title{Cohomology of current algebras} \author{Pasha Zusmanovich} \institute{Tallinn University of Technology} \date{April 25, 2011} \begin{document} \setcounter{framenumber}{-1} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} $L$ - Lie algebra $A$ - associative commutative algebra \bigskip \textbf{Current Lie algebra} is a vector space $L \otimes A$ under the bracket $$ [x \otimes a, y \otimes b] = [x,y] \otimes ab $$ where $x,y\in L$, $a,b\in A$. \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \textbf{What current Lie algebras are good for?} \begin{block}{Kac-Moody algebras} are central extensions of current Lie algebras $\mathfrak g \otimes \mathbb C[t,t^{-1}]$: $$ \mathfrak g \otimes \mathbb C[t,t^{-1}] + \mathbb C t\frac{d}{dt} + \mathbb C z $$ $$ [x \otimes f, y \otimes g] = [x,y] \otimes fg + (x,y)Res \frac{df}{dt}g \> z $$ where $x,y\in \mathfrak g$, $f,g\in \mathbb C[t,t^{-1}]$ \medskip $\form$ is the Killing form on $\mathfrak g$. \end{block} \uncover<2->{ \begin{block}{Modular semisimple Lie algebras} $$ S \otimes K[x_1, \dots, x_n]/(x_1^p, \dots, x_n^p) + 1 \otimes D $$ \end{block} } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{Question} \begin{itemize} \item How $H^*(L \otimes A, K)$ is expressed through invariants of $L$ and $A$? \item How $H^*(L \otimes A, M \otimes V)$ is expressed through invariants of $(L,M)$ and $(A,V)$? \end{itemize} \end{block} \uncover<2->{ \begin{block}{Applications} \begin{itemize} \item degree 2 (deformations and central extensions): structure theory of modular Lie algebras, physics. \item degree 3: $2$-Lie algebras and ``physics'' again. \item all degrees: combinatorial identities. \end{itemize} \end{block} } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{An elementary observation} Cocycles of the form $$ \Phi(x_1 \otimes a_1, \dots, x_n \otimes a_n) = \varphi(x_1, \dots, x_n) \otimes a_1 \cdots a_n \bullet v $$ for some $v \in V$ give rise to $$ H^*(L,M) \otimes V \subseteq H^*(L \otimes A, M \otimes V) . $$ \end{block} \uncover<2->{ \begin{block}{Another elementary observation} Cocycles of the form $$ \Phi(x_1 \otimes a_1, x_2 \otimes a_2) = [x_1,x_2] \otimes F(a_1,a_2) $$ give rise to $$ Har^2(A,V) \subseteq H^2(L \otimes A, L \otimes V) . $$ \end{block} } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{A naive desire} $$ H^*(L \otimes A, M \otimes V) \simeq \bigoplus_i \mathcal F_i(L,M) \otimes \mathcal G_i(A,V) $$ for some functors $\mathcal F_i$ and $\mathcal G_i$. \end{block} \uncover<2->{ \bigskip \textbf{It fails miserably in general.} } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{What is known about (co)homology of current Lie algebras?} \begin{itemize} \item $L$ is classical simple, $A$ close to polynomial: Feigin, Garland \& Lepowsky, Hanlon. \item $L$ is algebra of infinite matrices, $A$ arbitrary: additive K-theory Loday \& Quillen, Feigin \& Tsygan. \item $L$, $A$ (almost) arbitrary, (co)homology of low degree. \end{itemize} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \textbf{Feigin, 1970-1990s:} \begin{block}{An example} $H_*(\mathfrak g \otimes \mathbb C[t], \mathbb C) \simeq H_*(\mathfrak g, \mathbb C)$ Tool: comparison of spectral sequences arising from the triangular decomposition $\mathfrak g \otimes \mathbb C[t] = \widehat{\mathfrak n}_- \oplus \mathfrak h \oplus \widehat{\mathfrak n}_+$ and using Kostant-like results about $H_*(\widehat{\mathfrak n}_+, \mathbb C)$. \end{block} \uncover<2->{ \begin{block}{Another example} Partial results about $H^*_{continuos}(\mathfrak g^{M})$. Tool: a map from the Weil complex $\bigwedge^*(\mathfrak g) \otimes S^*(\mathfrak g)$ to a certain bicomplex $$\begin{CD} \bullet @>\text{de Rham complex of $M$}>> \bullet @>>> \bullet @>>> \dots \\ @V{C^*_{continuos}(\mathfrak g^{M})}VV @VVV @VVV \\ \bullet @>>> \bullet @>>> \bullet @>>> \dots \\ @VVV @VVV @VVV \\ \bullet @>>> \bullet @>>> \bullet @>>> \dots \\ \end{CD}$$ \end{block} } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \textbf{Garland \& Lepowsky, 1976}: $H^*(\mathfrak g \otimes t\mathbb C[t],\mathbb C)$ \textbf{Hanlon, 1986}: \hskip 67pt $H^*(\mathfrak g \otimes \mathbb C[t]/(t^n),\mathbb C)$ Tool: eigenvectors of the Laplacian (Gelfand--Fuchs style). \uncover<2->{ \bigskip\bigskip\bigskip \textbf{Tsygan, 1983 and Loday \& Quillen, 1984}: $$ H_*(gl(A),K) \simeq \bigwedge(HC_*(A)) $$ Lesson: cyclic (co)homology is involved! } \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{How cyclic cohomology appears in current Lie algebras cohomology?} \textit{First degree cyclic cohomology}: $HC^1(A) = \set{\alpha: A \times A \to K}{\alpha(ab,c) + \alpha(ca,b) + \alpha(bc,a) = 0}$ \medskip Let $\varphi \otimes \alpha \in Z^2(L\otimes A, K)$, $\varphi:L \times L \to K$, $\alpha:A \times A \to K$: \begin{align*} &\varphi([x,y],z) \otimes \alpha (ab,c) \\ + \> &\varphi([z,x],y) \otimes \alpha (ca,b) \\ + \> &\varphi([y,z],x) \otimes \alpha (bc,a) = 0 \end{align*} for any $x,y,z\in L$, $a,b,c\in A$. Cyclically permute $x,y,z$ and sum up the 3 equalities obtained: \begin{multline*} \Big( \varphi([x,y],z) + \varphi([z,x],y) + \varphi([y,z],x) \Big) \\ \otimes \Big( \alpha(ab,c) + \alpha(bc,a) + \alpha(ca,b) \Big) = 0. \end{multline*} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{Low degree cohomology} Nice formulae: \begin{itemize} \item $ H^1(L \otimes A, M \otimes V) \simeq H^1(L,M) \otimes V + Hom_L(L,M) \otimes Der(A,V) $ (Zusmanovich, 2005) \item $H^2(L \otimes A, K) \simeq H^2(L,K) \otimes A^* + B(L) \otimes HC^1(A)$ \\ (Haddi, 1992 and Zusmanovich, 1994) \\ (both assuming $[L,L] = L$) \item $H^2(\mathfrak g \otimes A, \mathfrak g \otimes A) \simeq Har^2(A,A)$ (Cathelineau, 1987) \item If $W_1(n)$ is the modular Zassenhaus algebra, then \begin{multline*} H^2(W_1(n) \otimes A, W_1(n) \otimes A) \\ \simeq H^2(W_1(n),W_1(n)) \otimes A + Der(A) + Der(A) + Har^2(A,A) \end{multline*} (Zusmanovich, 2003) \item $H^3(\mathfrak g \otimes A, K) \simeq HC^2(A)$ or $HD^2(A)$ (Cathelineau, 1987) \end{itemize} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{Low degree cohomology} % this is copied from low.tex ... and ugly formulae: some part (not all!) of $H^2(L\otimes A, M\otimes V)$ is isomorphic to {\tiny \begin{multline*} H^2(L,M) \otimes V + H_M^2(L) \otimes \frac{Hom(A,V)}{V \oplus Der(A,V)} + \mathscr H(L,M) \otimes Der(A,V) + \mathscr B(L,M) \otimes \frac{Har^2(A,V)}{\mathscr P_+(A,V)} \\+ C^2(L,M)^L \otimes \mathscr P_+(A,V) + \mathscr X(L,M) \otimes \frac{\mathscr A(A,V)}{\mathscr P_+(A,V)} + \mathscr T(L,M) \otimes \frac{D(A,V)}{Der(A,V)} \\+ Poor_-(L,M)\otimes \frac{S^2(A,V)}{Hom(A,V) + D(A,V) + Har^2(A,V) + \mathscr A(A,V)} \end{multline*} where: $d^{[\>]} \varphi (x,y,z) = \varphi([x,y],z) + \curvearrowright$; %d^\bullet \varphi(x,y,z) &= x\bullet\varphi(y,z) + \curvearrowright . $\wp \alpha(a,b,c) = \alpha(ab,c) + \curvearrowright$; $D\alpha(a,b,c) = a\bullet\alpha(b,c) + \curvearrowright$; $\mathscr B(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M)}{\varphi([x,y],z) + z\bullet\varphi(x,y) = 0; d^{[\>]}\varphi(x,y,z) = 0}$; $Q^2(L,M) = \set{d\psi}{\psi\in Hom(L,M); x\bullet\psi(y) = y\bullet\psi(x)}$; $H_M^2(L) = (Z^2(L,M^L) + Q^2(L,M))/Q^2(L, M)$; %$\mathscr K(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M)} %$ {d^{[\>]}\varphi(x,y,z) = 2x\bullet\varphi(y,z)}$; $\mathscr J(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M)} {\varphi(x,y) = \psi([x,y]) - \frac 12 x\bullet\psi(y) + \frac 12 y\bullet\psi(x) \text{ for } \psi\in Hom(L,M)}$; $\mathscr H(L, M) = (\mathscr K(L,M) + \mathscr J(L,M))/\mathscr J(L,M)$. $\mathscr X(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M)} {2\varphi([x,y],z) = z\bullet\varphi(x,y); \varphi([x,y],z) = \varphi([z,x],y)}$; $\mathscr T(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M)} {3\varphi([x,y],z) = 2z\bullet\varphi(x,y); \varphi([x,y],z) = \varphi([z,x],y)}$; $Poor_-(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in C^2(L,M^L)}{\varphi([L,L],L) = 0}$; %$Poor_+(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in S^2(L,M^L)}{\varphi([L,L],L) = 0}$; %$Sym^2 (L,M) = \set{\varphi\in S^2(L,M)}{x\bullet\varphi(y,z) = y\bullet\varphi(x,z)}$; %$SB^2 (L,M) = \set{\varphi\in S^2(L,M)} %{\varphi(x,y) = x\bullet\psi(y) + y\bullet\psi(x) \text{ for } \psi \in Hom(L,M)}$; %$SH^2(L,M) = (Sym^2(L,M) + SB^2(L,M))/SB^2(L,M)$. %$$ %z \circ \varphi(x, y) = z\bullet\varphi(x,y) + \varphi([x,z],y) + \varphi(x,[y,z]). %$$ %$\mathscr S^2(L,M) = \set{\varphi\in S^2(L,M)^L} %{\varphi([x,y],z) + \curvearrowright = 0}$. $D(A,V) = \set{\beta\in Hom(A,V)} {\beta(abc) = a\bullet\beta(bc) - bc\bullet\beta(a) + \curvearrowright}$; %$HC^1(A,V) = \set{\alpha\in C^2(A,V)}{\wp\alpha = 0}$. %$\mathscr C^2(A,V) = \set{\alpha\in C^2(A,V)} %{\alpha(ac,b) - \alpha(bc,a) + a\bullet\alpha(b,c) - b\bullet\alpha(a,c) % + 2c\bullet\alpha(a,b) = 0}$. %$\mathscr P_-(A,V) = \set{\alpha\in C^2(A,V)} %{\alpha(ab,c) = a\bullet\alpha(b,c) + b\bullet\alpha(a,c)}$; $\mathscr P_+(A,V) = \set{\alpha\in S^2(A,V)} {\alpha(ab,c) = a\bullet\alpha(b,c) + b\bullet\alpha(a,c)}$; $\mathscr A(A,V) = \set{\alpha\in S^2(A,V)}{2D\alpha = \wp\alpha}$. } \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{How to (methodically) ``compute'' cohomology of general current Lie algebras?} Cauchy formula: $$ \bigwedge\nolimits^n(L\otimes A) \simeq \bigoplus_{\lambda \vdash n} Y_\lambda(L) \otimes Y_{\lambda^\sim}(A) $$ $Y_\lambda$ - \textit{Schur functor} associated with the Young diagram $\lambda$. \\ Examples: \Yboxdim5pt $Y_{\yng(1,1,1)} = \frac{1}{3!} \sum_{\sigma\in S_3} (-1)^\sigma \sigma$ \\ $Y_{\yng(3)} = \frac{1}{3!} \sum_{\sigma\in S_3} \sigma$ \\ $Y_{\yng(2,1)} = \frac{1}{3} (e + (12) - (13) - (123))$ \bigskip $\lambda^\sim$ - obtained from $\lambda$ by interchanging rows and columns \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{How Young symmetrizers interact with the differential?} {\small each Young diagram $\lambda$ represents $Hom(Y_\lambda(L),M) \otimes Hom(Y_\lambda(A),V)$ } % all arrows \begin{diagram}[width=2.3em,height=2.5em] &&&&&& \yng(1) &&&&&&& \\ %1 &&&&& \ldTo && \rdTo &&&&& \\ %2 &&&& \yng(1,1) &&&& \yng(2) &&&& \\ %3 &&& \ldTo && \rdTo\rdTo(5,2) & & \ldTo(6,2)\ldTo && \rdTo &&& \\ %4 && \yng(1,1,1) &&&& \yng(2,1) &&&& \yng(3) && \\ %5 & \ldTo && \rdTo\rdTo(4,2)\rdTo(6,2)\rdTo(10,2) && \ldTo(6,2)\ldTo & \dTo & \rdTo\rdTo(6,2) && \ldTo(10,2)\ldTo(6,2)\ldTo(4,2)\ldTo && \rdTo & \\ %6 \yng(1,1,1,1) &&&& \yng(2,1,1) && \yng(2,2) && \yng(3,1) &&&& \yng(4) \\ %7 \dots &&&& \dots && \dots && \dots &&&& \dots \end{diagram} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{How Young symmetrizers interact with the differential?} {\small each Young diagram $\lambda$ represents $Hom(Y_\lambda(L),M) \otimes Hom(Y_\lambda(A),V)$ } % non-vanishing arrows (taken from low.tex) \begin{diagram}[width=2.3em,height=2.5em] &&&&&& \yng(1) &&&&&&& \\ %1 &&&&& \ldTo && \rdTo &&&&& \\ %2 &&&& \yng(1,1) &&&& \yng(2) &&&& \\ %3 &&& \ldTo && \rdTo & & \ldTo(6,2)\ldTo && \rdTo &&& \\ %4 && \yng(1,1,1) &&&& \yng(2,1) &&&& \yng(3) && \\ %5 & \ldTo && \rdTo\rdTo(4,2) && \ldTo(6,2)\ldTo & \dTo & \rdTo && \ldTo(10,2)\ldTo(6,2)\ldTo(4,2)\ldTo && \rdTo & \\ %6 \yng(1,1,1,1) &&&& \yng(2,1,1) && \yng(2,2) && \yng(3,1) &&&& \yng(4) \\ %7 \dots &&&& \dots && \dots && \dots &&&& \dots \end{diagram} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{Which arrows do not vanish?} \begin{itemize} \item going from ``right'' to ``left'' \item the source Young diagram included into the target Young diagram \item the target Young diagram is of the shape: \begin{align*} & \yng(2,2,1) \\ & \dots \\ & \yng(1) \end{align*} \end{itemize} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{block}{A filtration and a spectral sequence} $F^kC^*$ = ``closure'' under non-vanishing arrows of \begin{align*} & \yng(1,1) \\ k+1 \> & \dots \\ & \yng(1) \end{align*} \end{block} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % don't include this final frame into the total count; % TeX twice for that! \newcounter{finalframe} \setcounter{finalframe}{\value{framenumber}} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \begin{frame} \begin{center} {\Huge That's all. Thank you.} \end{center} \vskip30pt Slides at \texttt{http://justpasha.org/math/spb-2011-algsem.pdf} \end{frame} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \setcounter{framenumber}{\value{finalframe}} \end{document} % end of spb-2011-algsem.tex