Using crossed homomorphisms, we show that the category of weak representations (respectively admissible representations) of Lie–Rinehart algebras (respectively Leibniz pairs) is a left module category over the monoidal category of representations of Lie algebras. In particular, the corresponding bifunctor of monoidal categories is established to give new weak representations (respectively admissible representations) of Lie–Rinehart algebras (respectively Leibniz pairs). This generalises and unifies various existing constructions of representations of many Lie algebras by using this new bifunctor. We construct some crossed homomorphisms in different situations and use our actions of monoidal categories to recover some known constructions of representations of various Lie algebras and to obtain new representations for generalised Witt algebras and their Lie subalgebras. The cohomology theory of crossed homomorphisms between Lie algebras is introduced and used to study linear deformations of crossed homomorphisms.

Let $M\stackrel {\rho _0}{\curvearrowleft }S$ be a $C^\infty $ locally free action of a connected simply connected solvable Lie group S on a closed manifold M. Roughly speaking, $\rho _0$ is parameter rigid if any $C^\infty $ locally free action of S on M having the same orbits as $\rho _0$ is $C^\infty $ conjugate to $\rho _0$ . In this paper we prove two types of result on parameter rigidity.

First let G be a connected semisimple Lie group with finite center of real rank at least $2$ without compact factors nor simple factors locally isomorphic to $\mathop {\mathrm {SO}}\nolimits _0(n,1)(n\,{\geq}\, 2)$ or $\mathop {\mathrm {SU}}\nolimits (n,1)(n\geq 2)$ , and let $\Gamma $ be an irreducible cocompact lattice in G. Let $G=KAN$ be an Iwasawa decomposition. We prove that the action $\Gamma \backslash G\curvearrowleft AN$ by right multiplication is parameter rigid. One of the three main ingredients of the proof is the rigidity theorems of Pansu, and Kleiner and Leeb on the quasi-isometries of Riemannian symmetric spaces of non-compact type.

Secondly we show that if $M\stackrel {\rho _0}{\curvearrowleft }S$ is parameter rigid, then the zeroth and first cohomology of the orbit foliation of $\rho _0$ with certain coefficients must vanish. This is a partial converse to the results in the author’s [Vanishing of cohomology and parameter rigidity of actions of solvable Lie groups. Geom. Topol. 21(1) (2017), 157–191], where we saw sufficient conditions for parameter rigidity in terms of vanishing of the first cohomology with various coefficients.

The purpose of this paper is to define an α-type cohomology, which we call α-type Chevalley–Eilenberg cohomology, for Hom-Lie algebras. We relate it to the known Chevalley–Eilenberg cohomology and provide explicit computations for some examples. Moreover, using this cohomology, we study formal deformations of Hom-Lie algebras, where the bracket as well as the structure map α are deformed. Furthermore, we provide a generalization of the grand crochet and study, in a particular case, the α-type cohomology for Hom-Lie bialgebras.

Let $\Gamma$ be a connection on a smooth manifold $M$. In this paper we give some properties of $\Gamma$ by studying the corresponding Lie algebras. In particular, we compute the first Chevalley–Eilenberg cohomology space of the horizontal vector fields Lie algebra on the tangent bundle of $M$, whose the corresponding Lie derivative of $\Gamma$ is null, and of the horizontal nullity curvature space.

Let be a classical Lie superalgebra and let ℱ be the category of finite-dimensional -supermodules which are completely reducible over the reductive Lie algebra . In [B. D. Boe, J. R. Kujawa and D. K. Nakano, Complexity and module varieties for classical Lie superalgebras, Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (2011), 696–724], we demonstrated that for any module M in ℱ the rate of growth of the minimal projective resolution (i.e. the complexity of M) is bounded by the dimension of . In this paper we compute the complexity of the simple modules and the Kac modules for the Lie superalgebra . In both cases we show that the complexity is related to the atypicality of the block containing the module.

Lazard showed in his seminal work (Groupes analytiques p-adiques, Publ. Math. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. 26 (1965), 389–603) that for rational coefficients, continuous group cohomology of p-adic Lie groups is isomorphic to Lie algebra cohomology. We refine this result in two directions: first, we extend Lazard’s isomorphism to integral coefficients under certain conditions; and second, we show that for algebraic groups over finite extensions K/ℚp, his isomorphism can be generalized to K-analytic cochains andK-Lie algebra cohomology.

Let $A$ be a unital commutative associative algebra over a field of characteristic zero, $\mathfrak{k}$ a Lie algebra, and $\mathfrak{z}$ a vector space, considered as a trivial module of the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}:=A\otimes \mathfrak{k}$. In this paper, we give a description of the cohomology space ${{H}^{2}}(\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{z})$ in terms of easily accessible data associated with $A$ and $\mathfrak{k}$. We also discuss the topological situation, where $A$ and $\mathfrak{k}$ are locally convex algebras.

A thin Lie algebra is a Lie algebra graded over the positive integers satisfying a certain narrowness condition. We describe several cyclic grading of the modular Hamiltonian Lie algebras H(2: n; ω2) (of dimension one less than a power of p) from which we construct infinite-dimensional thin Lie algebras. In the process we provide an explicit identification of H(2: n; ω2) with a Block algebra. We also compute its second cohomology group and its derivation algebra (in arbitrary prime characteristic).

Let L be a finite-dimensional Lie algebra over the field F. The Ado-Iwasawa Theorem asserts the existence of a finite-dimensional L-module which gives a faithful representation ρ of L. Let S be a subnormal subalgebra of L, let be a saturated formation of soluble Lie algebras and suppose that S ∈ . I show that there exists a module V with the extra property that it is -hypercentral as S-module. Further, there exists a module V which has this extra property simultaneously for every such S and , along with the Hochschild extra that ρ(x) is nilpotent for every x ∈ L with ad(x) nilpotent. In particular, if L is supersoluble, then it has a faithful representation by upper triangular matrices.

Non-abelian homology of Lie algebras with coefficients in Lie algebras is constructed and studied, generalising the classical Chevalley-Eilenberg homology of Lie algebras. The relationship between cyclic homology and Milnor cyclic homology of non-commutative associative algebras is established in terms of the long exact non-abelian homology sequence of Lie algebras. Some explicit formulae for the second and the third non-abelian homology of Lie algebras are obtained.

Let be a saturated formation of soluble Lie algebras over the field F, and let L ∈ . Let V and W be -hypercentral and -hyperexcentric L-modules respectively. Then V ⊗FW and HomF(V, W) are -hyperexcentric and Hn(L, W) = 0 for all n.

We investigate a class of infinite-dimensional, modular, graded Lie algebra in which the homogeneous components have dimension at most two. A subclass of these algebras can be obtained via a twisted loop algebra construction from certain finite-dimensional, simple Lie algebras of Albert-Frank type.

Another subclass of these algebras is strictly related to certain graded Lie algebras of maximal class, and exhibits a wide range of behaviours.

In this paper, we determine when two simple generalized Cartan type $W$ Lie algebras ${{W}_{d}}(A,\,T,\,\varphi )$ are isomorphic, and discuss the relationship between the Jacobian conjecture and the generalized Cartan type $W$ Lie algebras.