Examples of homotopy Lie algebras
We look at two examples of homotopy Lie algebras (also known as algebras) in detail from two points of view. We will exhibit the algebraic point of view in which the generalized Jacobi expressions are verified by using degree arguments and combinatorics. A second approach using the nilpotency of Grassmann-odd differential operators to verify the homotopy Lie data is shown to produce the same results.