2020
DOI: 10.1093/imrn/rnz369
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Endofunctors and Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt Theorems

Abstract: We determine what appears to be the bare-bones categorical framework for Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt (PBW)-type theorems about universal enveloping algebras of various algebraic structures. Our language is that of endofunctors; we establish that a natural transformation of monads enjoys a PBW property only if that transformation makes its codomain a free right module over its domain. We conclude with a number of applications to show how this unified approach proves various old and new PBW-type theorems. In particul… Show more

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“…This approach allows vast generalizations, and new universal enveloping algebras can be constructed for other types of algebraic structures in this way. It can also generalize well-known theorems such as the Poincaré-Birkoff-Witt theorem in a functorial way, see [DT20].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 82%
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“…This approach allows vast generalizations, and new universal enveloping algebras can be constructed for other types of algebraic structures in this way. It can also generalize well-known theorems such as the Poincaré-Birkoff-Witt theorem in a functorial way, see [DT20].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 82%
“…Thus the universal enveloping algebra of a curved Lie algebra also satisfies the Poincaré-Birkoff-Witt property. See [DT20].…”
Section: Curved Bimodules and Universal Functorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Freeness of the left module structure allows one to prove that free PreLie C -algebras are free as PreLie B -algebras, generalising known results like the second author's theorem [16]. Freeness of the right module can be used in the categorical framework for Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorems developed in the first author's joint work with Tamaroff [14], implying a functorial PBW type theorem for universal enveloping PreLie C -algebras of PreLie B -algebras.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 91%
“…The theorem asserts that as a coalgebra, U(g) is isomorphic to S c (g), the cofree cocommutative coassociative conilpotent coalgebra generated by g (note that since we work over Q, the underlying object of S c (X) is the same as that of S(X) for all X in C). To prove the Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem in C, one may use the methods of [2] or [11] for the first version and the methods of [48,Appendix B] or [40] for the second version. We note that for an abelian group L equipped with a homomorphism p : L → Z 2 (for example, the parity Z → Z 2 ), one normally thinks of the category of L-graded vector spaces with the braiding morphism (the Koszul sign rule)…”
Section: Conventionsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It was observed in[34, §2.6] that it is possible to modify multiplication in H Q (non-canonically) to make it super-commutative. For that, one defines the parity map p : L → Z 2 , d → χ(d, d) (mod 2) and chooses a group homomorphism ε : L × L → µ {±1} such that(11) ε(d, e) = (−1) p(d)p(e)+χ(d,e) ε(e, d), d, e ∈ L.…”
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confidence: 99%