Yang-Baxter (YB) map systems (or set-theoretic analogs of entwining YB structures) are presented. They admit zero curvature representations with spectral parameter depended Lax triples L₁, L₂, L₃ derived from symplectic leaves of 2 × 2 binomial matrices equipped with the Sklyanin bracket. A unique factorization condition of the Lax triple implies a 3-dimensional compatibility property of these maps. In case L₁ = L₂ = L₃ this property yields the set-theoretic quantum Yang-Baxter equation, i.e. the...

We first discuss the construction by Pérez-Izquierdo and Shestakov of universal nonassociative enveloping algebras of Malcev algebras. We then describe recent results on explicit structure constants for the universal enveloping algebras (both nonassociative and alternative) of the 4-dimensional solvable Malcev algebra and the 5-dimensional nilpotent Malcev algebra. We include a proof (due to Shestakov) that the universal alternative enveloping algebra of the real 7-dimensional simple Malcev algebra...

Let $G$ be a simple algebraic group over an algebraically closed field $𝕜$ of characteristic 0, and $𝔤=LieG$. Let $(e,h,f)$ be an $𝔰{𝔩}_2$-triple in $𝔤$ with $e$ being a long root vector in $𝔤$. Let $(·,·)$ be the $G$-invariant bilinear form on $𝔤$ with $(e,f)=1$ and let $\chi \in {𝔤}^{*}$ be such that $\chi \left(x\right)=(e,x)$ for all $x\in 𝔤$. Let $𝒮$ be the Slodowy slice at $e$ through the adjoint orbit of $e$ and let $H$ be the enveloping algebra of $𝒮$; see [31]. In this article we give an explicit presentation of $H$ by generators and relations. As a consequence we deduce that $H$ contains an ideal...

De Concini and Procesi have defined the wonderful compactification $\overline{X}$ of a symmetric space $X=G/G^{\sigma }$ where $G$ is a complex semisimple adjoint group and $G^{\sigma }$ the subgroup of fixed points of $G$ by an involution $\sigma$. It is a closed subvariety of a Grassmannian of the Lie algebra $𝔤$ of $G$. In this paper we prove that, when the rank of $X$ is equal to the rank of $G$, the variety is defined by linear equations. The set of equations expresses the fact that the invariant alternate trilinear form $w$ on $𝔤$ vanishes on the $(-1)$-eigenspace...

The aim of this paper is to prove that a control affine system on a manifold is equivalent by diffeomorphism to a linear system on a Lie group or a homogeneous space if and only if the vector fields of the system are complete and generate a finite dimensional Lie algebra. A vector field on a connected Lie group is linear if its flow is a one parameter group of automorphisms. An affine vector field is obtained by adding a left invariant one. Its projection on a homogeneous space, whenever it exists,...

Let $X$ be a (generalized) flag manifold of a complex semisimple Lie group $G$. We investigate the problem of constructing a graded star product on $ℛ=R\left(T^{☆}X\right)$ which corresponds to a $G$-equivariant quantization of symbols into twisted differential operators acting on half-forms on $X$. We construct, when $ℛ$ is generated by the momentum functions ${\mu }^x$ for $G$, a preferred choice of $☆$ where ${\mu }^x☆\phi$ has the form ${\mu }^x\phi +\frac{1}{2}\{{\mu }^x,\phi \}t+{\Lambda }^x\left(\phi \right)t^2$. Here ${\Lambda }^x$ are operators on $ℛ$. In the known examples, ${\Lambda }^x$ ($x\ne 0$) is not a differential operator, and so the star product ${\mu }^x☆\phi$...

We show that the family of Podleś spheres is complete under equivariant Morita equivalence (with respect to the action of quantum SU(2)), and determine the associated orbits. We also give explicit formulas for the actions which are equivariantly Morita equivalent with the quantum projective plane. In both cases, the computations are made by examining the localized spectral decomposition of a generalized Casimir element.

We determine the length of composition series of projective modules of G-transitive algebras with an Auslander-Reiten component of Euclidean tree class. We thereby correct and generalize a result of Farnsteiner [Math. Nachr. 202 (1999)]. Furthermore we show that modules with certain length of composition series are periodic. We apply these results to G-transitive blocks of the universal enveloping algebras of restricted p-Lie algebras and prove that G-transitive principal blocks only allow components...