We study five different types of the homology of a Lie algebra over a commutative ring which are naturally isomorphic over fields. We show that they are not isomorphic over commutative rings, even over $mathbb Z,$ and study connections between them.
In particular, we show that they are naturally isomorphic in the case of a Lie algebra which is flat as a module. As an auxiliary result we prove that the Koszul complex of a module $M$ over a principal ideal domain that connects the exterior and the symmetric powers $0to Lambda^n Mto M otimes Lambda^{n-1} M to dots to S^{n-1}M otimes M to S^nMto 0 $ is purely acyclic.
We study the notion of $Gamma$-graded commutative algebra for an arbitrary abelian group $Gamma$. The main examples are the Clifford algebras already treated by Albuquerque and Majid. We prove that the Clifford algebras are the only simple finite-dim
ensional associative graded commutative algebras over $mathbb{R}$ or $mathbb{C}$. Our approach also leads to non-associative graded commutative algebras extending the Clifford algebras.
We revisit the characterisation of modules over non-unital $C^*$-algebras analogous to modules of sections of vector bundles. A fullness condition on the associated multiplier module characterises a class of modules which closely mirror the commutati
ve case. We also investigate the multiplier-module construction in the context of bi-Hilbertian bimodules, particularly those of finite numerical index and finite Watatani index.
Let $M$ be an $R$-module and $c$ the function from $M$ to the ideals of $R$ defined by $c(x) = cap lbrace I colon I text{is an ideal of} R text{and} x in IM rbrace $. $M$ is said to be a content $R$-module if $x in c(x)M $, for all $x in M$. $B$ is c
alled a content $R$-algebra, if it is a faithfully flat and content $R$-module and it satisfies the Dedekind-Mertens content formula. In this article, we prove some new results for content modules and algebras by using ideal theoretic methods.
We consider two different constructions of higher brackets. First, based on a Grassmann-odd, nilpotent Delta operator, we define a non-commutative generalization of the higher Koszul brackets, which are used in a generalized Batalin-Vilkovisky algebr
a, and we show that they form a homotopy Lie algebra. Secondly, we investigate higher, so-called derived brackets built from symmetrized, nested Lie brackets with a fixed nilpotent Lie algebra element Q. We find the most general Jacobi-like identity that such a hierarchy satisfies. The numerical coefficients in front of each term in these generalized Jacobi identities are related to the Bernoulli numbers. We suggest that the definition of a homotopy Lie algebra should be enlarged to accommodate this important case. Finally, we consider the Courant bracket as an example of a derived bracket. We extend it to the big bracket of exterior forms and multi-vectors, and give closed formulas for the higher Courant brackets.