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Hopf co-addition for free magma algebras and the non-associative Hausdorff series

✍ Scribed by Lothar Gerritzen; Ralf Holtkamp


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2003
Tongue
English
Weight
194 KB
Volume
265
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis


Generalizations of the series exp and log to noncommutative non-associative and other types of algebras were considered by M. Lazard, and recently by V. Drensky and L. Gerritzen. There is a unique power series exp(x) in one non-associative variable x such that exp(x) exp(x) = exp(2x), exp (0) = 1.

We call the unique series H = H (x, y) in two non-associative variables satisfying exp(H ) = exp(x) exp(y) the non-associative Hausdorff series, and we show that the homogeneous components H n of H are primitive elements with respect to the co-addition for non-associative variables. We describe the space of primitive elements for the co-addition in non-associative variables using Taylor expansion and a projector onto the algebra A 0 of constants for the partial derivations. By a theorem of Kurosh, A 0 is a free algebra. We describe a procedure to construct a free algebra basis consisting of primitive elements.