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Deformations and Local Geometry of Lie Triple System Morphisms

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In this paper, first we study the deformations, stability and rigidity of Lie triple system morphisms by means of higher derived brackets and augmented Yamaguti cohomology. The vanishing of the first cohomology gives formal and local inner rigidity. The vanishing of the second cohomology removes the formal extension obstructions and, in finite dimension over R\mathbb{R}, gives local smoothness and stability under simultaneous perturbations of the two products. Next, we establish the relationship with Lie algebra homomorphisms in each part of the theory. The universal enveloping Lie algebra identifies a Lie triple morphism with a grading-preserving Lie homomorphism. We obtain the corresponding first cohomology isomorphism, the equivalence of formal and smooth deformations, and a stability result for graded Lie bracket perturbations. For Lie triple products induced by binary Lie brackets, we construct a comparison of differentials and obstruction classes. Under perfectness and a zero-centralizer condition, the local morphism spaces coincide. Finally, we relate triple subsystem graphs to graded Lie subalgebra graphs and compare their normal differentials.

Introduction

Lie triple systems describe the infinitesimal structure of symmetric spaces. Their algebraic structure was developed by Jacobson and Lister [6, 9]. In the finite-dimensional real setting, the correspondence between Lie triple systems and germs of pointed symmetric spaces identifies a triple morphism with the tangent map of a local symmetric-space morphism [11]. Thus a deformation of a triple morphism describes a variation of the infinitesimal data of a map preserving the local symmetric-space structure. This raises geometric questions about whether nearby maps are equivalent under inner symmetries, whether infinitesimal variations extend to actual families, and whether a map persists when the structures on its source and target change.

For fixed triple products π\pi and μ\mu on finite-dimensional real vector spaces g\mathfrak{g} and h\mathfrak{h}, these questions concern the local structure of a polynomial zero set in Hom⁡(g,h)\operatorname{Hom}(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h}). The morphism space Mor⁡(g,h)\operatorname{Mor}(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h}) is the zero set of the defect

Sπ,μ(q)(x,y,z)=μ(qx,qy,qz)−qπ(x,y,z).S_{\pi,\mu}(q)(x,y,z)=\mu(qx,qy,qz)-q\pi(x,y,z).

Its local geometry at a morphism ff involves the smoothness of this zero set, the position of the inner automorphism orbit through ff, and the persistence of nearby zeros as π\pi and μ\mu vary. This provides a finite-dimensional setting in which the relation between the morphism equation and its linearization can be studied directly.

Cohomology gives the infinitesimal description of this geometry. The derivative of the defect at ff is the first differential δf1\delta_f^1, so Zf1=ker⁡δf1Z_f^1=\ker\delta_f^1 is the space of solutions of the linearized morphism equation. The degree-zero differential records infinitesimal inner actions, and its image Bf1B_f^1 is the tangent space to the inner orbit. Consequently, the augmented group Hf1=Zf1/Bf1H_f^1=Z_f^1/B_f^1 describes first-order variations modulo inner equivalence. Higher coefficients of a formal deformation give obstruction classes in Hf2H_f^2. We study smooth families of morphisms through the local geometry of the morphism equation.

2020 Mathematics Subject Classification. 17A40, 17B56.

Key words and phrases. Lie triple system, Lie algebra homomorphism, universal enveloping Lie algebra, cohomology, rigidity, stability.

Yamaguti introduced a cohomology theory intrinsic to Lie triple systems [14]. Harris studied a related theory using Lie algebras with involution [5]. The deformation theory of triple products was developed by Kubo and Taniguchi [8], and Zhang explained Yamaguti cohomology through Leibniz cohomology [15]. Xia, Sheng and Tang constructed a graded Lie algebra that controls Lie triple systems and recovers the Yamaguti differential [13]. We use this graded Lie algebra with its last-three-variable symmetry conditions throughout the paper.

The derived bracket method of Voronov [12], together with twisting of L∞L_\infty-algebras [3], gives a convenient description of equations for linear maps. Frégier and Zambon applied this method to simultaneous deformations of algebras and morphisms [2]. In the setting of Lie triple systems, Hajjaji constructed the controlling algebra and cohomology of crossed homomorphisms [4]. For the zero action, crossed homomorphisms are ordinary morphisms. Thus the Maurer–Cartan description used below is a specialization of that construction. Cohomology for simultaneous deformations of Lie–Yamaguti algebra morphisms was studied by Mondal and Saha [10]. The positive-degree complex considered here keeps the two Lie triple systems fixed; varying their products is treated separately as a parameter-dependent stability problem.

Our geometric approach follows the rigidity and stability framework for Lie algebras described by Crainic, Schätz and Struchiner [1] and the corresponding study of 33-Lie algebra morphisms by Jiang, Sheng and Sun [7]. Two features of Lie triple systems enter the argument. First, the triple product is skew in its first two arguments and satisfies a cyclic identity. We use the corresponding cochain spaces and coefficient representation. Second, the degree-zero term records inner equivalence. This term gives the first boundary space and enters the comparison with the normal complex of a graph subsystem.

With these conventions, our main results give cohomological criteria for the local structure of the morphism space. If Hf1=0H_f^1=0, every sufficiently close morphism belongs to the inner orbit of ff, and the required inner automorphism can be chosen smoothly near ff. Thus the orbit contains a neighborhood of ff in the morphism locus. If Hf2=0H_f^2=0, that locus is a smooth submanifold near ff, with

TfMor⁡(g,h)=Zf1,dim⁡fMor⁡(g,h)=dim⁡Zf1.T_f\operatorname{Mor}(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h})=Z_f^1,\qquad\dim_f\operatorname{Mor}(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h})=\dim Z_f^1.

Every first cocycle is then realized as the derivative of a smooth family of morphisms. These assertions identify the local dimension and distinguish orbit directions from the infinitesimal directions measured by Hf1H_f^1. We prove them by an elementary exactness lemma and an explicit compatibility identity for the defect. The identity accounts for the relations among the morphism equations, and the vanishing of Hf2H_f^2 supplies the exactness needed for local smoothness.

The stability result describes how this geometry depends on the two triple products. Under the same condition Hf2=0H_f^2=0, every sufficiently small simultaneous perturbation of π\pi and μ\mu through Lie triple system products admits a morphism close to ff. Moreover, this morphism can be chosen as the restriction of a smooth function of the product tensors. Hence any smooth family of such product pairs admits a compatible smooth family of morphisms through ff. The smooth choice is defined on the ambient tensor space and then restricted to the locus of Lie triple system products. If ff is injective, surjective or invertible, the nearby morphisms retain that property after restricting the neighborhood.

Triple subsystems give a second geometric realization of these results. The kk-dimensional triple subsystems of a finite-dimensional real Lie triple system EE form a locus in the Grassmannian Gr⁡k(E)\operatorname{Gr}_k(E). At a subsystem s\mathfrak{s}, the ambient tangent space is Hom⁡(s,E/s)\operatorname{Hom}(\mathfrak{s},E/\mathfrak{s}), and the normal cohomology describes the linearized closure condition and its obstructions. We obtain corresponding criteria for local inner rigidity, smoothness and stability. In particular, the graph Gf={(x,fx):x∈g}G_f=\{(x,f x):x\in\mathfrak{g}\} identifies the local morphism space near ff with the local subsystem space near GfG_f in Gr⁡dim⁡g(g⊕h)\operatorname{Gr}_{\dim\mathfrak{g}}(\mathfrak{g}\oplus\mathfrak{h}). The comparison of their complexes, including the degree-zero boundaries, shows that deformations of maps and deformations of their graph subsystems have the same local geometry and the same infinitesimal inner equivalence.

A further purpose of this paper is to relate this local geometry to that of Lie algebra homomorphisms. The universal enveloping Lie algebra of a Lie triple system is an ordinary Lie algebra with a Z2\mathbb{Z}_2-grading. Jacobson’s universal embedding and Smirnov’s graded formulation identify Lie triple morphisms with grading-preserving Lie homomorphisms [6, 11]. We apply this established correspondence to first cohomology and formal deformations. In finite dimension, polynomial extension and linear restriction identify the local morphism spaces and preserve smooth deformations and inner orbits. Local smoothness and rigidity therefore have equivalent interpretations in these two settings. The recognition criterion for universal envelopes also gives stability under small graded Lie bracket perturbations. The Lie equivalences in this comparison are generated by even inner derivations.

There is another comparison when the source and target triple products are induced by prescribed binary Lie brackets through [x,y,z]=[[x,y],z][x,y,z]=[[x,y],z]. A Lie homomorphism always preserves the associated triple products, but a Lie triple morphism need not preserve the binary bracket. We express the triple morphism defect in terms of the binary defect, thereby relating the first differentials and the second obstruction classes. If the source Lie algebra is perfect and the centralizer of its image in the target is zero, the comparison operator is injective. The formal morphism equations and the local morphism loci then agree near the given homomorphism. Perfectness of the target further identifies the inner boundary spaces and the local inner rigidity conditions. These assumptions specify when the local geometry for prescribed binary Lie brackets is recovered from the ternary problem.

The paper is organized as follows. In Sect. 2, we recall the controlling graded Lie algebra and give the Maurer–Cartan characterization, the universal Lie correspondence and the binary defect identity. In Sect. 3, we study augmented cohomology and formal obstructions, and compare them with the Chevalley–Eilenberg theory of Lie homomorphisms. In Sect. 4, we prove local rigidity and stability, together with their graded Lie and binary Lie consequences. In Sect. 5, we study triple subsystems, their normal complexes and their relationship with Lie subalgebra graphs.

Unless otherwise stated, vector spaces are over a field K\mathbb{K} of characteristic zero. The algebraic and formal results hold in arbitrary dimension over K\mathbb{K}. In Sections 4 and 5, all vector spaces are finite-dimensional over R\mathbb{R} whenever smoothness, neighborhoods or stability are discussed. All topologies there are the usual finite-dimensional topologies. The algebraic graph comparison also holds in arbitrary dimension.

Derived brackets and the morphism equation

In this section, we recall the graded Lie algebra for Lie triple systems and apply higher derived brackets to the morphism equation. Subsequently, we establish its relationship with graded Lie homomorphisms through universal envelopes. For triple products induced by binary Lie brackets, we compare the two morphism defects and give an injectivity criterion.

Definition 2.1. A Lie triple system is a vector space LL with a trilinear product satisfying

[x,x,y]=0,(1)[x,x,y]=0, \tag*{(1)}
[x,y,z]+[y,z,x]+[z,x,y]=0,(2)[x,y,z]+[y,z,x]+[z,x,y]=0, \tag*{(2)}
[x,y,[u,v,w]]=[[x,y,u],v,w]+[u,[x,y,v],w]+[u,v,[x,y,w]].(3)[x,y,[u,v,w]]=[[x,y,u],v,w]+[u,[x,y,v],w]+[u,v,[x,y,w]]. \tag*{(3)}

A morphism f:(g,π)⟶(h,μ)f:(\mathfrak{g},\pi)\longrightarrow(\mathfrak{h},\mu) is a linear map such that

μ(fx,fy,fz)=fπ(x,y,z)(x,y,z∈g).(4)\mu(fx,fy,fz)=f\pi(x,y,z)\qquad(x,y,z\in\mathfrak{g}). \tag*{(4)}

For x,y∈Lx,y \in L, the map ad⁡x∧yz=[x,y,z]\operatorname{ad}_{x\wedge y}z=[x,y,z] is a derivation by (3). These maps span a Lie algebra InnDer⁡(L)\operatorname{InnDer}(L), since

[ad⁡x∧y,ad⁡u∧v]=ad⁡[x,y,u]∧v+ad⁡u∧[x,y,v].(5)[\operatorname{ad}_{x\wedge y},\operatorname{ad}_{u\wedge v}]=\operatorname{ad}_{[x,y,u]\wedge v}+\operatorname{ad}_{u\wedge[x,y,v]}. \tag*{(5)}

The notation ad⁡X\operatorname{ad}_{X} extends linearly to X∈∧2LX \in\wedge^{2}L and defines a surjective linear map ∧2L→InnDer⁡(L)\wedge^{2}L \to\operatorname{InnDer}(L).

For vector spaces L,VL,V, set C0(L,V)=Hom⁡(L,V)C^{0}(L,V)=\operatorname{Hom}(L,V). For p≥1p \ge1, let Cp(L,V)C^{p}(L,V) consist of the maps

P:(L⊗L)⊗p⊗L⟶VP:(L\otimes L)^{\otimes p}\otimes L\longrightarrow V

that satisfy

P(X1,…,Xp−1,x,x,y)=0,(6)P(X_{1},\ldots,X_{p-1},x,x,y)=0, \tag*{(6)}
P(X1,…,Xp−1,x,y,z)+P(X1,…,Xp−1,y,z,x)+P(X1,…,Xp−1,z,x,y)=0.(7)P(X_{1},\ldots,X_{p-1},x,y,z)+P(X_{1},\ldots,X_{p-1},y,z,x)+P(X_{1},\ldots,X_{p-1},z,x,y)=0. \tag*{(7)}

Here Xi∈L⊗LX_i \in L\otimes L, and the last three entries are written separately. These are the cochain conventions of [13]. The cochain symmetries are exactly (6)–(7), imposed on the last three entries; the preceding arguments remain tensor pairs.

We use the following insertion convention. If P∈Cp(L,L)P \in C^{p}(L,L), Q∈Cq(L,L)Q \in C^{q}(L,L) and Xi=xi⊗yiX_i=x_i\otimes y_i, define, for 1≤k≤p1\le k\le p,

(P∘kQ)(X1,…,Xp+q,z)=∑σ∈Sh⁡(k−1,q)sgn⁡(σ)P(Xσ(1),…,Xσ(k−1),Q(Xσ(k),…,Xσ(k+q−1),xk+q)⊗yk+q,Xk+q+1,…,Xp+q,z)+∑σ∈Sh⁡(k−1,q)sgn⁡(σ)P(Xσ(1),…,Xσ(k−1),xk+q⊗Q(Xσ(k),…,Xσ(k+q−1),yk+q),Xk+q+1,…,Xp+q,z).(8)\begin{aligned} (P\circ_k Q)(X_1,\ldots,X_{p+q},z) ={}&\sum_{\sigma\in\operatorname{Sh}(k-1,q)}\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)P(X_{\sigma(1)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(k-1)},\\ &Q(X_{\sigma(k)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(k+q-1)},x_{k+q})\otimes y_{k+q},X_{k+q+1},\ldots,X_{p+q},z)\\ &+\sum_{\sigma\in\operatorname{Sh}(k-1,q)}\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)P(X_{\sigma(1)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(k-1)},\\ &x_{k+q}\otimes Q(X_{\sigma(k)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(k+q-1)},y_{k+q}),X_{k+q+1},\ldots,X_{p+q},z). \tag*{(8)} \end{aligned}

In this formula an unshuffle permutes the first k+q−1k+q-1 indices. The remaining insertion is

(P∘p+1Q)(X1,…,Xp+q,z)=∑σ∈Sh⁡(p,q)sgn⁡(σ)P(Xσ(1),…,Xσ(p),Q(Xσ(p+1),…,Xσ(p+q),z)).(9)(P\circ_{p+1}Q)(X_1,\ldots,X_{p+q},z) =\sum_{\sigma\in\operatorname{Sh}(p,q)}\operatorname{sgn}(\sigma)P(X_{\sigma(1)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(p)},Q(X_{\sigma(p+1)},\ldots,X_{\sigma(p+q)},z)). \tag*{(9)}

Empty strings of arguments are omitted. Put

P∘Q=∑k=1p+1(−1)(k−1)qP∘kQ,[P,Q]B=P∘Q−(−1)pqQ∘P.(10)P\circ Q=\sum_{k=1}^{p+1}(-1)^{(k-1)q}P\circ_k Q,\qquad[P,Q]_{\mathrm B}=P\circ Q-(-1)^{pq}Q\circ P. \tag*{(10)}

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