Abstract

We give the explicit multiplication law of the Lie supergroups for which the base manifold is a 3-dimensional Lie group and whose underlying Lie superalgebra which satisfies , acts on via the adjoint representation and has a 2-dimensional derived ideal.

1. Introduction

A possible notion of superspace associated to a given -dimensional Lie algebra might be a Lie superalgebra . If one is to introduce a minimal set of assumptions, it seems quite natural to consider those superalgebras for which and for which the action on is the adjoint representation. A complete classification of the real and complex -dimensional Lie superalgebras having precisely this restriction was recently obtained in [1]. The classification was given in terms of the dimension of the derived ideal . The most trivial case was that corresponding to whereas the most difficult case was that of . Our aim in this paper is to explicitly produce the real and complex Lie supergroups associated to the Lie superalgebras classified in [1] having a 2-dimensional derived ideal. This is just one step forward in our understanding of the real and complex -dimensional Lie supergroups.

In order to maintain our exposition as self-contained as possible, we will summarize the basic statements from [1]. Once we fix the adjoint representation, it is well known (see [1, 2]) that there are as many Lie superalgebras as bilinear symmetric maps satisfying

Furthermore, the isomorphism class of the Lie superalgebra defined by such a given is completely determined by its orbit under the action of the group of pairs satisfying given by

Now, let be either the real or the complex number field, and let be a fixed -dimensional Lie algebra over . Let be a basis for , and let be the real or complex vector space of symmetric, bilinear maps satisfying (1.1). Thus, we can identify the space with the set of triples of symmetric bilinear forms, for which satisfies (1.1).

Let be the derived ideal of . Lie algebras having can be classified by choosing and bringing into a convenient canonical form (see [3, 4] or [5] for details). Thus, and, since , then must be an invertible matrix. Now, the classification up to isomorphism of the Lie algebras having can be written as in Table 1, where we followed the notation introduced in [1].

It is easy to see that the matrices of take the forms where and . It is well known that the associated Lie groups for the Lie algebras we are dealing with here are the so-called unimodular groups and for and , respectively, and for the other Lie algebras, the associated Lie groups are called nonunimodular (see [6]). We shall denote by any of those Lie groups.

It was proved in [1] that when is invertible, any triple , for which satisfies (1.1), is given, up to isomorphism, by where is an arbitrary element of the ground field for the three classes and , with no relation between the parameters and .

What we do in this paper is to describe explicitly all the Lie supergroups whose underlying 3-dimensional Lie group is and having as Lie superalgebras of left-invariant supervector fields the Lie superalgebras given by the triple above. The method is the one given in [7] and is essentially the one used in Lie's classical theory, that is, we give first a faithful representation of the Lie superalgebra into the Lie superalgebra of vector fields of some supermanifold, and obtain the local coordinate version of the supergroup multiplication law through composition of their integral flows depending on the integration parameters (see [7]).

In more detail, we aim to describe the multiplication law in terms of tetrads , where are the local coordinates on the 3-dimensional Lie group , and and are the odd coordinates on the supergroup , where stands for the sheaf of sections of the exterior algebra bundle associated to the rank- vector bundle , whose typical fiber can be decomposed as , with . Thus, is a local section of , and is a local section of . Then, the product is given by (see Theorem 3.1)

The point of giving such an explicit expression is to actually see the way odd coordinates are combined, within the supergroup composition law, to produce even sections. It was this interaction between even and odd coordinates what apparently had some physical and geometrical ideas that were worth studying but there are only a few explicit examples in the literature; some of them are incomplete, and some are relatively trivial.

Once we obtain the multiplication law for the different Lie supergroups, we give in Proposition 3.2 the supermorphisms that define the Lie supergroups within the spirit of [7, 8]. Finally, in Proposition 3.3 we compute the left-invariant supervector fields associated to the Lie supergroups we have built, bringing us back to the Lie superalgebras we started with.

2. Lie Superalgebra Representations

Let us write where and are defined as above. Let and be matrices ().

Proposition 2.1. Let be a -dimensional Lie superalgebra, where , acts on via the adjoint representation, and . Let and be bases for and , respectively. Let be a -dimensional supervector space and let be a linear map such thatThen, the choices where , turn into a faithful representation of the Lie superalgebra .

Proof. Let us writewhere , and and are matrices.
From the definition of , it is straightforward to check that defines a Lie algebra isomorphic to that described in (1.3).
In order to have acting on via the adjoint representation, we must have but , so we obtain where and is the identity matrix. Now, we have to satisfy the condition , but . Then,
With no loss of generality, we can choose and , so that and . Finally, by choosing and we find that all equations are satisfied. Actually, we can always choose , obtaining the expressions given in the statement.

The choices we have made in the proof of Proposition 2.1 produce easier exponential matrices (see Theorem 3.1 below). Since the representation is to be faithful, different choices made in the proof would have produced Lie superalgebras isomorphic to inside . Therefore, the corresponding supergroups obtained via the constructive method used in Theorem 3.1 would have been isomorphic at the end. This is so because Lie's theory looks for faithfully realizing in terms of vector fields whose integral flows will eventually define the supergroup multiplication law via composition of (local) diffeomorphisms.

3. Lie Supergroups for Which Is Invertible

Once we have the different Lie superalgebras represented in for some (3,3)- dimensional supervector space , we proceed to find a supermanifold that actually carries a Lie supergroup structure following essentially the same steps followed in the classical theory of Lie. In fact, we can always obtain explicitly a Lie group structure for from its Lie algebra , where . So, let us write as the local coordinates described in the introduction.

Theorem 3.1. Let be a Lie superalgebra satisfying , acting on via the adjoint representation, and having 2-dimensional derived ideal . The Lie supergroups whose underlying Lie superalgebras are have the following multiplication law for the products of and :

Proof. According to [7, 8] we only have to compute the exponential of the matrices and given in Proposition 2.1, and the supergroup composition law will be obtained from first principles using the ODE theory in supermanifolds and following Lie's original techniques as described before (see [7]). If we denote by the composition we notice that , where
In order to find the multiplication law, we have to find when the following identity holds: that is, we have to solve
From we obtain and from we obtain
Now, it is straightforward to prove that and defining , , , and we find the multiplication law given in the statement.

From (3.8), we can write the multiplication law in terms of morphisms as in [7, 8].

Proposition 3.2. Let be the -dimensional supermanifold whose underlying Lie group is and let be local coordinates. For let be the direct product projections. Then is a Lie supergroup endowed with the morphism defined by the morphism defined by , and the morphism defined by

Proof. It is straightforward to check that which are the associative law, the identity element, and inverse element properties, hold.

Proposition 3.3. Assuming the hypotheses of Proposition 3.2, the left-invariant supervector fields can be written as , where and . Furthermore, the Lie superalgebra defined by the left-invariant supervector fields is isomorphic to the Lie superalgebra given by (1.3) and (1.5).

Proof. Any supervector field can be written as and is a left-invariant supervector field if the supervector field satisfies where is given by and , as in [7]. By Proposition 3.2 we have the explicit multiplication morphisms and and applying the local coordinates on both sides of (3.14) we found the restrictions for 's and 's and they are written as in the statement.
Finally, in order to prove that defines the Lie superalgebra given in the beginning, we just have to compute the Lie superbrackets given for the supervector fields, namely, to check that it is precisely the same Lie superalgebra defined by (1.3) and (1.5). By defining the correspondence we conclude that they are isomorphic.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge with thanks the partial support received from the following grants: CONACYT Grant 46274, and Programa del Mejoramiento del Profesorado, Secretara de Educación, Grant PROMEP/103.5/2526 PTC-45-D. They would like to thank Professor Adolfo Sánchez-Valenzuela for enlightening discussions during the genesis of this work, and the kind hospitality received by the authors at CIMAT and Facultad de Matemáticas, at UADY. Last but not least, they would like to thank the referees for their comments, criticism, and recommendations contributed to clear various passages of the original manuscript.