This is an extended version of a talk given by the author at the conference “Algebra and Topology in Interaction” on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of D.B. Fuchs at UC Davis in September 2009. It is a brief survey of an area originated around 1995 by I. Gelfand and the speaker.
The purpose of this paper is two fold: we study the behaviour of the forgetful functor from -modules to graded vector spaces in the context of algebras over an operad and derive the construction of combinatorial Hopf algebras. As a byproduct we obtain freeness and cofreeness results for those Hopf algebras.Let denote the forgetful functor from -modules to graded vector spaces. Left modules over an operad are treated as -algebras in the category of -modules. We generalize the results obtained...
Constructing an even Poisson algebra from a Gerstenhaber algebra by means of an odd derivation of square 0 is shown to be possible in the category of Loday algebras (algebras with a non-skew-symmetric bracket, generalizing the Lie algebras, heretofore called Leibniz algebras in the literature). Such “derived brackets” give rise to Lie brackets on certain quotient spaces, and also on certain Abelian subalgebras. The construction of these derived brackets explains the origin of the Lie bracket on...
Let R be a split extension of an artin algebra A by a nilpotent bimodule , and let M be an indecomposable non-projective A-module. We show that the almost split sequences ending with M in mod A and mod R coincide if and only if = 0 and .
We study associative, basic n × n𝔸-full matrix algebras over a field, whose multiplications are determined by structure systems 𝔸, that is, n-tuples of n × n matrices with certain properties.
Suppose is a commutative unital ring and is an abelian group. We give a general criterion only in terms of and when all normalized units in the commutative group ring are -nilpotent. This extends recent results published in [Extracta Math., 2008–2009] and [Ann. Sci. Math. Québec, 2009].
Let be a group with identity and let be a -graded ring. In this paper, we introduce and study the concept of graded -ideals of . A proper graded ideal of is called a graded -ideal of if whenever where , then either or or . We introduce several results concerning --ideals. For example, we give a characterization of graded -ideals and their homogeneous components. Also, the relations between graded -ideals and others that already exist, namely, the graded prime ideals,...