1 Introduction
1.1 Algebra of invariants
Assume that
$\mathbb {F}$
is an algebraically closed field of an arbitrary characteristic
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}$
. All vector spaces and algebras are over
$\mathbb {F}$
.
Consider an algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is of dimension n, i.e.,
$\mathcal {A}$
is a vector space with a bilinear multiplication, and a subgroup G of the group of all automorphisms
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {A})\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_n$
of
$\mathcal {A}$
. The group G naturally acts on
$\mathcal {A}^m = \mathcal {A} \oplus \cdots \oplus \mathcal {A}$
(m times) diagonally:
${g{\underline {a}} = (g\cdot a_1,\ldots ,g\cdot a_m)}$
for each
$g\in G$
and
${\underline {a}} =(a_1,\ldots ,a_m)$
from
$\mathcal {A}^m$
. The coordinate ring of the vector space
$\mathcal {A}^m$
is a polynomial (i.e., commutative and associative) algebra
Fix some basis
$\{e_1,\ldots ,e_n\}$
for
$\mathcal {A}$
, and for every
$a\in \mathcal {A}$
denote by
$(a)_i$
the i-
$\mathrm {th}$
coordinate of a with respect to the given basis. We can consider elements of
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
as polynomial functions
$\mathcal {A}^m\to \mathbb {F}$
, since
$x_{ri}$
can be interpreted as a function
$\mathcal {A}^m\to \mathbb {F}$
given by
$x_{ri}({\underline {a}} ) = (a_r)_i$
. The action of G on
$\mathcal {A}^m$
induces the action of the coordinate ring
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
as follows:
$(g\cdot f)({\underline {a}} ) = f(g^{-1}\cdot {\underline {a}} )$
for all
$g\in G$
,
$f\in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m],$
and
${\underline {a}} \in \mathcal {A}^m$
. The algebra of G-invariants of the m-tuple of the algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is
or, equivalently,
For short, this algebra of
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {A})$
-invariants of the m-tuple of
$\mathcal {A}$
is called the algebra of invariants of the m-tuple of
$\mathcal {A}$
, and we denote it by
It is well known that the so-called operator traces (see Section 2.2 for details) are
$\mathrm { Aut}(\mathcal {A})$
-invariants. Denote by
$\mathrm {Tr}(\mathcal {A})_m$
the subalgebra of
$I_m(\mathcal {A})$
generated by all operator traces together with
$1$
. We say that the Artin–Procesi–Iltyakov Equality holds for
$\mathcal {A}^m$
if
The Artin–Procesi–Iltyakov Equality is known to be valid for
$\mathcal {A}^m$
with
$m\geqslant 1$
for the following algebras:
-
• $\mathcal {A}=M_n$
is the algebra of all
$n\times n$
matrices over
$\mathbb {F}$
, in case
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}=0$
or
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}>n$
. Generators for the algebra of invariants
$I_m(M_n)$
were independently described in [Reference Procesi33, Reference Sibirskii37] in the case of characteristic zero, and in [Reference Donkin10] in the case of positive characteristic. Minimal generating sets for
$I_m(M_2)$
and
$I_m(M_3)$
were obtained in [Reference Domokos, Kuzmin and Zubkov9, Reference Lopatin26–Reference Lopatin28, Reference Procesi34] and for
$I_m(M_4)$
and
$I_m(M_5)$
with small values of m, in [Reference Drensky and Sadikova12, Reference Ɖoković13, Reference Teranishi40], assuming
$\mathrm {char}\ \mathbb {F}=0$
. -
• $\mathcal {A}=\mathbf {O}$
is the octonion algebra, in case
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}\neq 2$
. Generators for the algebra of invariants
$I_m(\mathbf {O})$
were constructed in [Reference Schwarz36] over the field of complex numbers
$\mathbb {C}$
and in [Reference Zubkov and Shestakov42] over an arbitrary infinite field of odd characteristic. In case
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}\neq 2$
, a minimal generating set was constructed [Reference Lopatin and Zubkov29], using the classification of pairs of octonions from [Reference Lopatin and Zubkov30]. -
• $\mathcal {A}={\mathbb A}$
is the split Albert algebra, i.e., the exceptional simple Jordan algebra of
$3\times 3$
Hermitian matrices over
$\mathbf {O}$
with the symmetric multiplication
$a\circ b = (ab+ba)/2$
, in case
$\mathrm {char}\ {\mathbb {F}}=0$
and
$m\in \{1,2\}$
(see [Reference Iltyakov17, Reference Polikarpov32]).
More details about the Artin–Procesi–Iltyakov Equality can be found in [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1].
1.2 Leibniz algebras
An algebra
$\mathcal {L}$
is called a (right) Leibniz algebra if it satisfies the identity
Leibniz algebras present a “non-antisymmetric” generalization of Lie algebras. It was at first introduced by Bloh [Reference Bloh3] and then independently by Loday [Reference Loday24]. Recently, they appeared in many geometric and physics applications (see, for example, [Reference Bonezzi and Hohm4, Reference Kinyon and Weinstein22, Reference Kotov and Strobl23, Reference Strobl and Wagemann38] and references therein). A systematic study of algebraic properties of Leibniz algebras was started by Loday and Pirashvili [Reference Loday and Pirashvili25]. So, several classical theorems from Lie algebra theory have been extended to the Leibniz algebra case; many classification results regarding nilpotent, solvable, etc. Leibniz algebras have been obtained (see, for example, [Reference Ayupov, Khudoyberdiyev and Shermatova2, Reference Choriyeva and Khudoyberdiyev6, Reference de Mello and S. Souza7, Reference Fehlberg, Kaygorodov and Saydaliyev14, Reference Feldvoss and Wagemann15, Reference Kaygorodov, Kudaybergenov and Yuldashev20, Reference Khudoyberdiyev and Muratova21, Reference Mondal and Saha31, Reference Tang, Xu and Sheng39] and references therein); for results on algebraic and geometric classifications of low-dimensional Leibniz algebras, see [Reference Kaygorodov18, Reference Kaygorodov, Khrypchenko and Páez-Guillán19] and references therein.
Given a Leibniz algebra
$\mathcal {L}$
, we denote by
$\mathrm {Leib}(\mathcal {L})$
the
$\mathbb {F}$
-span of
$a^2$
for all
$a\in \mathcal {L}$
. Since
we have that
$\mathrm {Leib}(\mathcal {L})$
is an ideal of
$\mathcal {L}$
. Note that
$\mathrm {Leib}(\mathcal {L})$
is non-zero if and only if
$\mathcal {L}$
is not a Lie algebra. On the other hand, if
$\mathrm {Leib}(\mathcal {L})=\mathcal {L}$
, then
$\mathcal {L}$
has zero multiplication. Therefore, non-Lie Leibniz algebra is never simple.
1.3 Results
In this section, we assume that
$\mathbb {F} = \mathbb {C}$
is the field of complex numbers. Denote by
$\mathbf {L}_3$
the family of all three-dimensional non-Lie Leibniz algebras over the field
$\mathbb {F}$
. The classification of algebras from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
modulo the action of the automorphism group was independently obtained by:
-
• Casas, Insua, Ladra, and Ladra [Reference Casas, Insua, Ladra and Ladra5], by means of a computer program;
-
• Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov [Reference Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov35], without the use of a computer. Unfortunately, this classification is not complete (see the proof of Theorem 4.1 for details).
In our article, we complete the classification given in [Reference Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov35] in Theorem 4.1, and we prove its equivalence with the classification obtained in [Reference Casas, Insua, Ladra and Ladra5] (see again the proof of Theorem 4.1).
In Section 2, we provide the key definitions of generic elements and operator traces. In Section 3, we present explicit formulas for calculating certain operator traces (see Proposition 3.1) and describe the reduction of the general case to the multilinear case in characteristic zero (see Proposition 3.3).
Assume
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
. In Sections 4–6, we assume that
$\mathbb {F}=\mathbb {C}$
is the field of complex numbers. In Section 4, we explicitly describe the group
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L})$
of all automorphisms of
$\mathcal {L}$
(see Theorem 4.2). Then, in Section 5, we obtain a generating set for the algebra of invariants
$I_m(\mathcal {L})$
(see Theorem 5.1). As a consequence, we describe when the Artin–Procesi–Iltyakov Equality holds for
$\mathcal {L}$
(see Corollary 6.2). In Corollary 6.4, we obtain
$I_m(\mathcal {L})=\mathbb {F}$
for all
$m\geqslant 1$
if and only if
$\mathcal {L}$
is nilpotent. As a consequence, in Corollary 6.5, we show that any two non-nilpotent algebras from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
can be distinguished by means of:
-
• the traces of degrees $\leqslant 2$
; -
• the dimensions of its groups of automorphisms.
Note that the problem of distinguishing low-dimensional algebras using their algebraic properties has recently been studied. Specifically, in [Reference Diniz, Gonçalves, da Silva and Souza8], it was shown that any two-dimensional Jordan algebras over a finite field
$\mathbb {F}$
with odd characteristic are isomorphic if and only if they satisfy the same polynomial identities. In [Reference dos Santos, Kuz’min and Lopatin11], it was established that polynomial identities distinguish non-associative two-dimensional Novikov algebras over the complex numbers.
1.4 Notations
A monomial
$w= x_{r_1,i_1}\dots x_{r_k,i_k}$
from
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
has multidegree
$\mathrm { mdeg}(w)=(\delta _1,\ldots ,\delta _m) \in \mathbb {N}^m$
, where
$\delta _r$
is the number of letters of w lying in the set
$\{x_{r1},\ldots , x_{rn}\}$
and
$\mathbb {N}=\{0,1,2,\ldots \}$
. As an example,
$\mathrm {mdeg}(x_{31}x_{32}x_{21}x_{12})=(1,1,2)$
for
$m=3$
. For short, we denote the multidegree
$(1,\ldots ,1)\in \mathbb {N}^m$
by
$1^m$
. If
$f\in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
is a linear combination of monomials of the same multidegree
${\underline {d}} $
, then we say that f is
$\mathbb {N}^m$
-homogeneous of multidegree
${\underline {d}} $
. In other words, we have defined the
$\mathbb {N}^m$
-grading of
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
by multidegrees. Since
$\mathbb {F}$
is infinite, the algebra of invariants
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]^G$
also has the
$\mathbb {N}^m$
-grading by multidegrees. An
$\mathbb {N}$
-homogeneous element
$f\in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
of multidegree
$(d_1,\ldots ,d_m)$
with
$d_1,\ldots ,d_m\in \{0,1\}$
is called multilinear. For short, we denote by
$x_{r_1,i_1}\dots \widehat {x_{r_l,i_l}}\dots x_{r_k,i_k}$
the monomial
$x_{r_1,i_1}\dots x_{r_{l-1},i_{l-1}} x_{r_{l+1},i_{l+1}} \dots x_{r_k,i_k}$
from
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
, where
$1\leqslant l\leqslant k$
. Given a subset
$S\subset \mathcal {A}$
, we denote by
$\mathrm {alg}\{S\}$
the subalgebra of
$\mathcal {A}$
(without unity in general) generated by S. We write
$\mathbb {F}^{\times }$
for the set of non-zero elements of
$\mathbb {F}$
.
If there exists
$k\geqslant 1$
such that for every
$a_1,\ldots ,a_k\in \mathcal {A,}$
each product of
$a_1,\ldots ,a_k$
is zero in
$\mathcal {A}$
, then the algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is called nilpotent and the least possible
$k\geqslant 1$
with the above property is called the nilpotency class
$\mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {A})$
for
$\mathcal {A}$
; otherwise, we write
$\mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {A})=\infty $
.
2 Preliminaries on invariants
2.1 Generic elements
To explicitly define the action of G on
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
consider the algebra
$\widehat {\mathcal {A}}_m=\mathcal {A} \otimes _{\mathbb {F}} \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
, which is a G-module, where the multiplication and the G-action are defined as follows:
$(a\otimes f)(b\otimes h)=ab \otimes fh$
and
$g\bullet (a\otimes f) = g\cdot a \otimes f$
for all
$g\in G$
,
$a,b\in \mathcal {A,}$
and
$f,h\in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
. Define by
the generic elements of
$\widehat {\mathcal {A}}_m$
, where
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m$
. In particular, we have
For
$g\in G\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_n$
, we write
$[g]$
for the corresponding
$n\times n$
matrix. By straightforward calculations, we can see that
Denote by
$\mathrm {alg}_{\mathbb {F}}\{X\}_{m}$
the subalgebra of
$\widehat {\mathcal {A}}_m$
generated by the generic elements
$X_1,\ldots ,X_m$
and the unity
$1$
. Any product of the generic elements is called a word of
$\mathrm {alg}_{\mathbb {F}}\{X\}_{m}$
. Since
$G\leqslant \mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {A})$
, we have that
for all
$F,H$
from
$\mathrm {alg}_{\mathbb {F}}\{X\}_{m}$
.
2.2 Operator traces
For
$a\in \mathcal {A}$
denote by
$L_a:\mathcal {A} \to \mathcal {A}$
and
$R_a:\mathcal {A} \to \mathcal {A}$
the operators of the left and right multiplication by a, respectively. Then, define the left operator trace
$\mathrm {tr}_{\mathrm {L}}:\mathcal {A} \to \mathbb {F}$
by
$\mathrm {tr}_{\mathrm {L}}(a)=\mathrm {tr}(L_a)$
and the right operator trace
$\mathrm {tr}_{\mathrm { R}}:\mathcal {A} \to \mathbb {F}$
by
$\mathrm {tr}_{\mathrm {R}}(a)=\mathrm {tr}(R_a)$
.
To expand these constructions, we denote by
$\mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
the absolutely free unital algebra in letters
$\chi _0,\chi _1,\ldots ,\chi _m$
and for
$f\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
,
${\underline {a}} =(a_0,\ldots ,a_m)\in \mathcal {A}^{m+1}$
define
$f({\underline {a}} )\in \mathcal {A}$
as the result of substitutions
$\chi _0\to a_0,\, \chi _1\to a_1,\ldots ,\chi _m\to a_m$
in f. For
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
denote by
$L_h,R_h:\mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle \to \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
the operators of the left and right multiplication by h, respectively. As usually, the composition of maps
$P_1,P_2:\mathcal {A}\to \mathcal {A}$
is denoted by
$P_1\circ P_2 (a)=P_1(P_2(a))$
,
$a\in \mathcal {A}$
. Similar notation we use for composition of maps
$P_1,P_2:\mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle \to \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
. For a symbol
$P\in \{L,R\}$
, we write
-
• $P_a:\mathcal {A}\to \mathcal {A}$
for the operator of left or right multiplication by
$a\in \mathcal {A}$
; -
• $P_h:\mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle \to \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
for the operator of left or right multiplication by
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
.
The following definition of the operator trace generalizes definitions of the left and right operator traces.
Definition 2.1 Assume that
$m\geqslant 1$
and
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
is homogeneous of degree 1 in
$\chi _{0}$
, i.e., each monomial of h contains
$\chi _{0}$
exactly once. Then,
-
• for every ${\underline {a}} \in \mathcal {A}^m$
define the linear operator
$h(\,\cdot \,,{\underline {a}} ):\mathcal {A}\to \mathcal {A}$
by the following equality:
$h(\,\cdot \,,{\underline {a}} )(b) = h(b,a_1,\ldots , a_m)$
for all
$b\in \mathcal {A}$
; -
• define operator trace as follows: $\mathrm {tr}(h):\mathcal {A}^m \to \mathbb {F}$
, where
$\mathrm { tr}(h)({\underline {a}} )=\mathrm {tr}(h(\,\cdot \,,{\underline {a}} ))$
for all
${\underline {a}} \in \mathcal {A}^m$
.
As an example,
$\mathrm {tr}(\chi _0)=n$
,
$\mathrm {tr}_{\mathrm {L}}=\mathrm {tr}(\chi _1\chi _0)$
, and
$\mathrm { tr}_{\mathrm {R}}=\mathrm {tr}(\chi _0\chi _1)$
.
Remark 2.1 Assume that
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
is homogeneous of degree 1 in
$\chi _{0}$
.
-
(a) It is easy to see that $\mathrm {tr}(h) \in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
. -
(b) It is well known that $\mathrm {tr}(h)$
is an invariant from
$I_m(\mathcal {A})$
(for example, see Lemma 3.1 from [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1]). -
(c) If h has multidegree $(1,\delta _1,\ldots ,\delta _m)\in \mathbb {N}^{m+1}$
, then
$\mathrm {tr}(h)$
is
$\mathbb {N}^m$
-homogeneous of multidegree
$(\delta _1,\ldots ,\delta _m)$
.
Definition 2.2 Denote by
$\mathrm {Tr}(\mathcal {A})_m$
the subalgebra of
$I_m(\mathcal {A})$
generated by
$1$
and operator traces
$\mathrm {tr}(h)$
for all that
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
homogeneous of degree 1 in
$\chi _{0}$
.
3 Generators for algebras of invariants
3.1 Traces
Assume that the tableau of multiplication of the algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is
$M=(M_{ij})_{1\leqslant i,j\leqslant n}$
, i.e.,
$e_ie_j=M_{ij}$
in
$\mathcal {A}$
. Denote
for some
$ M_{ijl}\in \mathbb {F}$
. For every
$1\leqslant i\leqslant n$
consider the following
$n\times n$
matrices over
$\mathbb {F}$
:
Proposition 3.1 [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1, Proposition 3.2]
Assume that
$m\geqslant 1$
and a homogeneous monomial
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
of degree 1 in
$\chi _{0}$
satisfies the equality
$h= P^1_{\chi _{r_1}} \circ \cdots \circ P^k_{\chi _{r_k}} (\chi _0)$
for some symbols
$P^1,\ldots ,P^k\in \{L,R\}$
,
$1\leqslant r_1,\ldots ,r_k\leqslant m$
and
$k>0$
. Then,
Proposition 3.1 implies that for all
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m,$
we have
For every
$1\leqslant i,i'\leqslant n$
consider the following
$n\times n$
matrices over
$\mathbb {F}$
:
Proposition 3.2 [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1, Proposition 3.3]
Assume that
$m\geqslant 1$
and a homogeneous monomial
$h\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _0,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
of degree 1 in
$\chi _{0}$
satisfies the equality
$h= P^1_{h_1} \circ \cdots \circ P^k_{h_k} (\chi _0)$
for some symbols
$P^1,\ldots ,P^k\in \{L,R\}$
and monomials
$h_1,\ldots ,h_k\in \mathbb {F}\langle \chi _1,\ldots ,\chi _m\rangle $
of degree 1 or 2, where
$k>0$
. For every
$1\leqslant q\leqslant k$
denote
-
• ${\underline {i}} _q=i_q$
and
$w(q,{\underline {i}} _q) = x_{r_q,i_q}$
, in case
$h_q=\chi _{r_q}$
for some
$1\leqslant r_q\leqslant m$
; -
• ${\underline {i}} _q=\{i_q,i^{\prime }_q\}$
,
$M_{P^q}^{({\underline {i}} _q)}=M_{P^q}^{(i_q,i^{\prime }_q)}$
, and
$w(q,{\underline {i}} _q) = x_{r_q,i_q}x_{r^{\prime }_q,i^{\prime }_q}$
, in case
$h_q=\chi _{r_q}\chi _{r^{\prime }_q}$
for some
$1\leqslant r_q,r^{\prime }_q\leqslant m$
.
Then,
where the condition
$1\leqslant \{i_q,i^{\prime }_q\}\leqslant n$
stands for the condition
$1\leqslant i_q,i^{\prime }_q \leqslant n$
.
3.2 Reduction to multilinear case
In this section, we assume that
$G\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_n$
and
$\mathbb {F}=\mathbb {C}$
is the field of complex numbers.
A vector
${\underline {r}} =(r_1,\ldots ,r_m)\in \mathbb {N}^m$
satisfying
$r_1+\cdots +r_m=t$
is called a partition of
${t\in \mathbb {N}}$
in m parts. Denote by
${\mathcal P}^{t}_m$
the set of all such partitions. Given a partition
${\underline {r}} \in {\mathcal P}^{t}_m$
, we define a function
${\underline {r}} |\cdot |:\{1,\ldots ,t\}\to \{1,\ldots ,m\}$
by
for all
$1\leqslant l\leqslant t$
. For a partition
${\underline {r}} \in {\mathcal P}^{t}_m$
, we also define a homomorphism of
$\mathbb {F}$
-algebras as follows:
The following proposition and lemma are well known and can easily be proven.
Proposition 3.3 (cf. II.5, Theorem 2.5A of [Reference Weyl41])
The algebra of invariants
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]^G$
is generated by
Lemma 3.4 (cf. Theorem 5.14 of [Reference Gubeladze and Bruns16])
If the group G is diagonal, i.e., all elements of
$G\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_n$
are diagonal matrices, then the algebra of invariants
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]^G$
is generated by some monomials from
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {A}^m]$
.
The following lemma follows immediately from a partial case of Theorem 7.6 from [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1] for the algebra
${\mathbf A}_2$
.
Lemma 3.5 (see Theorem 7.6 of [Reference Alvarez and Lopatin1])
Assume that
$\mathcal {V}$
is a two-dimensional vector space with a basis
$\{e_1,e_2\}$
and let
$G\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_2$
be the group of all matrices

where
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}$
. As in Section 1.1, the coordinate ring
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {V}^m]=\mathbb {F}[x_{r1},x_{r2}\,|\,1\leqslant r\leqslant m]$
of
$\mathcal {V}^m$
is a G-module. Then, the algebra of invariants
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {V}^m]^G$
is generated by
4 Automorphisms of three-dimensional Leibniz algebras
We use notations for the tableau of multiplication of an algebra from Section 3.1.
Theorem 4.1 Each algebra
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
is isomorphic to one and only one algebra from the following list, where algebras are given by their tableaux of multiplication with respect to some basis
$\{e_1,e_2,e_3\}$
:


where
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
.
Proof A classification of three-dimensional non-Lie Leibniz algebras over complex numbers was obtained by Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov in Theorem 2 of [Reference Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov35], where it was claimed that any algebra from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
belongs to the following list:
$\mathcal {L}_1$
,
$\mathcal {L}_2^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_3$
,
$\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_5$
,
$\mathcal {L}_6$
,
$\mathcal {L}_7^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_8$
,
$\mathcal {L}_9$
with
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
. Unfortunately, this classification is not complete:
-
• The algebra $\mathcal {L}_2^0$
is a Lie algebra, therefore, we should assume that
$\lambda $
is non-zero in case
$\mathcal {L}_2^{\lambda }$
. -
• On page 361 of the proof of Theorem 2 of [Reference Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov35] it was claimed that $\mathcal {L}_{10}$
is isomorphic to
$\mathcal {L}_6$
, which is not the case. Actually, as it follows from Corollary 6.5 (see below),
$\mathcal {L}_{10}$
is not isomorphic to any other algebra from the formulation of Theorem 4.1. -
• The algebra $\mathcal {L}_{11}$
was missed in Case 2.1 of the proof of Theorem 2 of [Reference Rikhsiboev and Rakhimov35]. To show that
$\mathcal {L}_{11}$
is not isomorphic to any other algebra from the formulation of Theorem 4.1, we note that the only commutative algebras from the formulation of Theorem 4.1 are
$\mathcal {L}_{5}$
and
$\mathcal {L}_{11}$
, but
$\dim \mathrm {Ann}^{\mathrm {R}}(\mathcal {L}_{5})=1$
and
$\dim \mathrm {Ann}^{\mathrm {R}}(\mathcal {L}_{11})=2$
, where the right annihilator of an algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is $$ \begin{align*}\mathrm{Ann}^{\mathrm{R}}(\mathcal{A}) =\{a\in \mathcal{A} \,|\, ba=0 \text{ for all } b\in\mathcal{A}\}.\end{align*} $$
To complete the proof, we will prove that the classification from Theorem 4.1 is equivalent to the computer-based classification of three-dimensional non-Lie Leibniz algebras over complex numbers by Casas, Insua, Ladra, and Ladra [Reference Casas, Insua, Ladra and Ladra5]. For
$\delta \in \mathbb {F}$
, we denote by
the three-dimensional Leibniz algebras from page 3752 of [Reference Casas, Insua, Ladra and Ladra5], where
Note that
$\pm 1\in \widetilde {\mathbb {F}}$
, and for every
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}\backslash \{0,\pm 1\},$
either
$\alpha $
or
$\alpha ^{-1}$
lies in
$\widetilde {\mathbb {F}}$
. In [Reference Casas, Insua, Ladra and Ladra5] it was proven that any algebra from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
is isomorphic to one and only one algebra from the list (4.1). The following isomorphisms complete the proof, where
-
• for each line, the algebra from the first column is isomorphic to the algebra from the second column;
-
• the tableau of multiplication of the algebra from the first column considered with respect to the ordered basis from the third column is equal to the tableau of multiplication of the algebra from the second column.
Here,
-
• $\xi _1,\xi _2\in \mathbb {F}$
are pairwise different roots of the equation
$x^2+x-\lambda =0$
, which are uniquely defined by the condition that
$\lambda ':=\frac {\xi _2}{\xi _1}$
belongs to
$\widetilde {\mathbb {F}}\backslash \{\pm 1\}$
; -
• $\nu =\frac {2\xi _1+1}{\xi _1-2\lambda }$
.
It is straightforward to verify all cases but the case of
$\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_{7}^{\lambda }$
with
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}\backslash \{-1/4,0\}$
. Since the discriminant of the equation
$x^2+x-\lambda =0$
is non-zero, then its roots
$\xi _1,\xi _2$
are pairwise different. Note that
Since
$\lambda \neq -1/4$
, we have
Since
$\xi _1$
and
$\xi _2$
are non-zero,
$\lambda '$
is well-defined and
$\lambda '\neq 0$
. Permuting
$\xi _1$
and
$\xi _2$
, if necessary, we can assume that
$\lambda '\in \widetilde {\mathbb {F}}$
. Obviously, if
$\lambda '=-1$
, then
$\xi _1=\xi _2$
; a contradiction. Similarly, if
$\lambda '=1$
, then
$\lambda =-1/4$
; a contradiction. Hence,
$\lambda '\in \widetilde {\mathbb {F}}\backslash \{\pm 1\}$
.
Formulas (4.3) imply that
$\nu $
is well-defined and
$\nu \neq 0$
. Hence,
is a basis for
$\mathcal {L}$
.
Compute the tableau of multiplication for
$\mathcal {L}$
with respect to the ordered basis
$\{v_1,v_2,v_3\}$
:
-
• Using formulas (4.2), it is not difficult to see that $\nu \lambda =\lambda ' \xi _1$
and
$\nu (\xi _1+1)=\lambda '$
. Hence, $$ \begin{align*}v_1v_3=\xi_1\nu e_2 + \nu (\lambda e_1+e_2) = \nu \lambda e_1 + \nu (\xi_1+1) e_2 = \lambda' \xi_1 e_1 + \lambda' e_2 = \lambda' v_1.\end{align*} $$
-
• Using formulas (4.2), it is not difficult to see that $\nu \lambda = \xi _2$
and
$\nu (\xi _2+1)=1$
. Hence, $$ \begin{align*}v_2v_3=\xi_2\nu e_2 + \nu (\lambda e_1+e_2) = \nu \lambda e_1 + \nu (\xi_2+1) e_2 = \xi_2 e_1 + e_2 = v_2.\end{align*} $$
-
• Others products $v_i v_j$
are zero.
Therefore, the tableau of multiplication for
$\mathcal {L}$
with respect to the ordered basis
$\{v_1,v_2,v_3\}$
is

Hence,
$\mathcal {L}\simeq \mathcal {L}_{3a}^{\lambda '}$
. The following claim, which can be proven by straightforward computations, completes the proof:
Theorem 4.2 The groups of automorphisms of algebras from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
are the following set of matrices:

Here,
$\alpha _1,\ldots ,\alpha _9\in \mathbb {F}$
.
Proof Given
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
, consider an invertible linear map
$g:\mathcal {L}\to \mathcal {L}$
, given by a matrix

with respect to the basis
$\{e_1,e_2,e_3\}$
of
$\mathcal {L}$
from Theorem 4.1, where
${\alpha _1,\ldots ,\alpha _9\in \mathbb {F}}$
. Then, g is an automorphism of
$\mathcal {L}$
if and only if for each
$1\leqslant i,j\leqslant 3,$
we have
$g_{ij}:=g(e_ie_j)-g(e_i)g(e_j) = 0$
. It is straightforward to verify that matrices
$g,g_i$
from the formulation of this theorem are automorphisms. So, we assume that g is an automorphism.
-
1. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_1$
. Consequently considering
$g_{13}=0$
,
$g_{11}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _7 = 0$
,
$\alpha _4 = 0$
,
$\alpha _8 = 0$
, respectively. Since
$\det (g)=\alpha _1 \alpha _5 \alpha _9$
, we have
$\alpha _1\neq 0$
and consequently considering
$g_{13}=0$
,
$g_{22}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0$
,
$g_{33}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _9 = 1$
,
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _5^2$
,
$\alpha _2 = \alpha _5 \alpha _6$
,
$\alpha _3 = \alpha _6^2/2$
, respectively. The required statement is proven. -
2. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_2^{\lambda }$
for some non-zero
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
. Consequently considering
$g_{13}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0$
,
$g_{32}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _7 = 0$
,
$\alpha _8 = 0$
,
$\alpha _2 = 0$
, respectively. Since
$\det (g)=\alpha _1 \alpha _5 \alpha _9\neq 0$
, we consequently consider
$g_{31}=0$
,
$g_{33}=0$
,
$g_{13}=0$
to obtain
$\alpha _4 = 0$
,
$\alpha _3 = 0$
,
$\alpha _9 = 1$
, respectively. -
3. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_3$
. Consequently considering
$g_{11}=0$
,
$g_{22}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0$
, we obtain
$\alpha _7 = 0$
,
$\alpha _8 = 0$
,
$\alpha _2 = 0$
, respectively. Since
$\det (g)=\alpha _1 \alpha _5 \alpha _9\neq 0$
, we consequently consider
$g_{13}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0$
,
$g_{33}=0$
to obtain
$\alpha _4 = 0$
,
$\alpha _9 = 1$
,
$\alpha _1 = 1$
, respectively. The required statement is proven. -
4. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda }$
for some
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
. Since
$g_{22}=0$
, we have
$\alpha _4 = 0$
and
$\alpha _7 = 0$
. Considering equality
$g_{22}=0$
once again, we can see that
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _5^2 + \alpha _5 \alpha _8 + \lambda \alpha _8^2$
. -
(a) Let $\lambda \neq 0$
. -
(i) Assume $\alpha _6\neq 0$
. Then, equality
$g_{32}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _5 = -\alpha _8 (\alpha _6 + \lambda \alpha _9)/\alpha _6$
. Since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
, we have
$\alpha _6^2+\alpha _6 \alpha _9+\lambda \alpha _9^2\neq 0$
and
$\alpha _8\neq 0$
. Thus,
$g_{23}=0$
implies
$\alpha _8 = -\alpha _6 / \lambda $
. -
(ii) Assume $\alpha _6= 0$
. Since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
, we have
$\alpha _5\neq 0$
and
$\alpha _9\neq 0$
. Consequently considering
$g_{32}=0$
and
$g_{23}=0,$
we obtain that
$\alpha _8 = 0$
and
$\alpha _9 = \alpha _5$
, respectively.
-
-
(b) Let $\lambda =0$
. Since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
, we have
$\alpha _5+\alpha _8\neq 0$
and
$\alpha _5\neq 0$
. Consequently considering
$g_{32}=0$
and
$g_{23}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _6 = 0$
and
$\alpha _9 = \alpha _5 + \alpha _8$
, respectively. The required statement is proven.
-
-
5. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_5$
. Equality
$g_{22}=0$
implies
$\alpha _4 = 0$
,
$\alpha _7 = 0$
, and then equality
$g_{33}=0$
implies
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _6^2 + \alpha _9^2$
.-
(a) Let $\alpha _9\neq 0$
. Equality
$g_{23}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _8 = -\alpha _5 \alpha _6/\alpha _9$
. Since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
, we have
$\alpha _6^2+\alpha _9^2 \neq 0$
and
$g_{22}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _9 = \pm \alpha _5$
. -
(b) Let $\alpha _9= 0$
. Since
$\det (g)=-\alpha _6^3 \alpha _8\neq 0$
, consequently considering
$g_{23}=0$
,
$g_{22}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _5 = 0$
and
$\alpha _8 = \pm \alpha _6$
, respectively. The required statement is proven.
-
-
6. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_6$
. Consequently considering
$g_{13}=0$
,
$g_{23}=0,$
we obtain that
${\alpha _8 = 0}$
and
$\alpha _7 = 0$
, respectively. Considering equality
$g_{13}=0$
once again, we can see that
$\alpha _5 = \alpha _1 \alpha _9$
and
$\alpha _2 = \alpha _4 \alpha _9$
. Since
$\det (g)=(\alpha _1^2 - \alpha _4^2) \alpha _9^2\neq 0$
, equality
$g_{33}=0$
implies
$\alpha _3 = \alpha _6 = 0$
.If $\alpha _9\neq \pm 1$
, then
$g_{23}=0$
implies
$\alpha _1=\alpha _4=0$
; hence,
$\det (g)=0$
; a contradiction. Therefore,
$\alpha _9 = \pm 1$
. The required statement is proven. -
7. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_7^{\lambda }$
for some
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
. Considering
$g_{13}=0,$
we obtain
$\alpha _8 = 0$
,
${\alpha _2 = \lambda \alpha _4 \alpha _9,}$
and
$\alpha _5 = (\alpha _1 + \alpha _4) \alpha _9$
. Note that
$\alpha _9\neq 0$
, since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
. Hence, it follows from
$g_{33}=0$
that
$\alpha _6 = -\alpha _3$
.-
(a) Let $\lambda \neq 0$
. Consequently considering
$g_{23}=0$
and
$g_{33}=0$
, we obtain
$\alpha _7 = 0$
and
$\alpha _3 = 0$
, respectively.-
(i) Assume $\alpha _9 = -1$
. Since the characteristic of the field is zero,
$g_{23}=0$
implies
$\alpha _4 = 0$
and
$\alpha _1 = 0$
. Thus,
$\det (g)=0$
; a contradiction. -
(ii) Assume $\alpha _9\neq \pm 1$
. Then,
$g_{23}=0$
implies
$\alpha _1 = -\alpha _4 \alpha _9/(1 + \alpha _9)$
. Considering
$g_{23}=0$
once again, we obtain
$\alpha _4(\alpha _9+\lambda (1+\alpha _9)^2)=0$
. Thus,
$\det (g)=0$
; a contradiction.
Therefore, $\alpha _9 = 1$
. -
-
(b) Let $\lambda = 0$
. Note that
$\det (g)=(\alpha _1+\alpha _4) \alpha _9 (-\alpha _3 \alpha _7+\alpha _1 \alpha _9)$
. Since
$(\alpha _1+\alpha _4) \alpha _9 \neq 0$
, consequently considering
$g_{11}=0$
and
$g_{23}=0,$
we can see that
$\alpha _7 = 0$
and
$\alpha _9 = 1$
, respectively. The required statement is proven.
-
-
8. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_8$
for some
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
. Equality
$g_{13}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _8 = 0$
,
$\alpha _5 = \alpha _1 \alpha _9$
,
$\alpha _2 = \alpha _7 \alpha _9$
. Hence, it follows from equality
$g_{33}=0$
that
$\alpha _7 = 0$
,
$\alpha _4 = \alpha _3 \alpha _9$
,
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _9^2$
. The required statement is proven. -
9. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_9$
. Equality
$g_{33}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _4 = \alpha _3 \alpha _9$
. Applying equality
$g_{33}=0$
once again, we can see that
$\alpha _7 = 0$
and
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _9 (\alpha _3 + \alpha _9)$
. Then, equality
$g_{13}=0$
implies
$\alpha _8=0$
. Thus,
$\alpha _9\neq 0$
, since
$\det (g) = \alpha _9^2 (-\alpha _2 \alpha _3 + \alpha _5 (\alpha _3 + \alpha _9))$
. Consequently considering
$g_{23}=0$
and
$g_{13}=0,$
we obtain that
$\alpha _2 = 0$
and
$\alpha _5 = -\alpha _3 \alpha _9 + \alpha _3 \alpha _9^2 + \alpha _9^3$
, respectively.In case $\alpha _9 = -\alpha _3$
, we have
$\det (g)=0$
; a contradiction. Therefore,
$\alpha _9\neq -\alpha _3$
and
$g_{13}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _9=1$
. The required statement is proven. -
10. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_{10}$
. Equality
$g_{13}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _7 = 0$
. Applying equality
$g_{23}=0$
, we can see that
$\alpha _8 = 0$
. Note that
$\alpha _9\neq 0$
, since
$\det (g)\neq 0$
. Hence, it follows from
$g_{33}=0$
that
$\alpha _3 = \alpha _6=0$
.-
(a) Let $\alpha _9\neq 1$
. Then,
$g_{13}=0$
implies
$\alpha _1 = \alpha _4 = 0$
; hence,
$\det (g)=0$
, a contradiction. -
(b) Let $\alpha _9=1$
. Then, the required statement holds.
-
-
11. Assume $\mathcal {L}=\mathcal {L}_{11}$
. Equality
$g_{11}=0$
implies that
$\alpha _7 = 0$
. Applying equality
$g_{22}=0$
, we can see that
$\alpha _8 = 0$
. Hence, it follows from equality
$g_{33}=0$
that
$\alpha _4=0$
and
$\alpha _1=\alpha _9^2$
. The required statement is proven.
Corollary 4.3 Given
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
, the group
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L})$
has dimension
$2\leqslant d\leqslant 5$
as an affine variety, where each of the possibilities holds for some algebra
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
.
Proof For each
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
, the group
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L})$
is the following affine variety:
for some polynomials
$f_1,\ldots ,f_r,h_1,\ldots ,h_s$
from
$\mathbb {F}[x_1,\ldots ,x_d]$
with
$r,s\geqslant 0$
, where
${\underline {b}} $
stands for
$(b_1,\ldots ,b_d)$
. Then, the dimension of
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L})$
is d. Applying this reasoning together with Theorem 4.2, we complete the proof.
An automorphism
$\delta $
of an algebra
$\mathcal {A}$
is called diagonal if there exists some basis
$\{e_1,\ldots ,e_n\}$
of
$\mathcal {A}$
such that
$\varphi (e_i)=\alpha _i e_i$
for some
$\alpha _i\in \mathbb {F}$
. For short, we write a diagonal
$n\times n$
matrix with diagonal elements
$\alpha _1,\ldots ,\alpha _n\in \mathbb {F}$
as
$\mathrm {diag}\{\alpha _1,\ldots ,\alpha _n\}$
. The importance of the diagonal automorphisms for invariant theory follows from the next remark.
Remark 4.4 If there are
$a_1,\ldots ,a_n\in \mathbb {N}$
such that
$\delta =\mathrm {diag}\{\alpha ^{a_1},\ldots ,\alpha ^{a_n}\}$
is an automorphism of
$\mathcal {A}$
for all
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}$
and
$a_{i_0}>0$
for some
$1\leqslant i_0\leqslant n$
, then the algebra of invariants
$I_m(\mathcal {L})$
lies in
$\mathbb {F}[x_{ri}\,|\,1\leqslant r\leqslant m,\; 1\leqslant i\leqslant n,\; i\neq i_0]$
. As an example, if
$\mathrm {diag}\{\alpha ,1,\ldots ,1\}$
is an automorphism of
$\mathcal {A}$
for all
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}$
, then
$I_m(\mathcal {L})$
lies in
$\mathbb {F}[x_{ri}\,|\,2\leqslant r\leqslant m,\; 1\leqslant i\leqslant n ]$
.
Theorem 4.2 implies the following lemma.
Lemma 4.5 Here is a list of some diagonal automorphisms
$\delta $
:
for all
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
and all non-zero
$\alpha ,\beta \in \mathbb {F}$
.
5 Generators for algebras of invariants
In this section, we describe the algebra of polynomial invariants
$I_m(\mathcal {L})$
for any
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
. For short, we denote
$x_r:=x_{r1}$
,
$y_r:=x_{r2}$
,
$z_r:=x_{r3}$
for all
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m$
. Given
${\underline {r}} =(r_1,\ldots ,r_k)\in \{1,\ldots ,m\}^k$
, we write
$x_{{\underline {r}} }=x_{r_1}\dots x_{r_k}$
,
$y_{{\underline {r}} }=y_{r_1}\dots y_{r_k}$
,
$z_{{\underline {r}} }=z_{r_1}\dots z_{r_k}$
.
Note that by formula (2.1), an automorphism
$g=(g_{ij})_{1\leqslant i,j\leqslant 3}$
of
$\mathrm { Aut}(\mathcal {L})\leqslant \mathrm {GL}_3$
acts on
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {L}^m]$
as follows:
for all
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m$
.
Theorem 5.1 For every
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
and
$m>0,$
we have the following equalities for algebras of invariants:
-
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_1)$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}})$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_7)$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_{10})$
are all equal to
$\mathbb {F}[z_1,\ldots ,z_m]$
; -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_3)$
is generated by
$1, z_1, \ldots , z_m$
and
$x_r z_s - z_r x_s (1 \leqslant r < s \leqslant m$
); -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda })=I_m(\mathcal {L}_5)=I_m(\mathcal {L}_8)={ I_m(\mathcal {L}_{11})}=\mathbb {F}$
; -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_6)$
is generated by
$1, z_r z_s$
for all
$1\leqslant i\leqslant j\leqslant m$
; -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_9)$
is generated by
$1, z_1, \ldots , z_m$
and
$(x_r-y_r) z_s - z_r (x_s-y_s)$
for all
${1\leqslant r < s \leqslant m}$
.
Proof Lemma 4.5 together with Remark 4.4 implies that for every
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
and
$m>0,$
we have the following inclusions and equalities for algebras of invariants:
-
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_1)$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}})$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_6)$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_7)$
,
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_{10})$
belong to
$\mathbb {F}[z_1,\ldots ,z_m]$
; -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_3)\subset \mathbb {F}[x_1,\ldots ,x_m,z_1,\ldots ,z_m]$
; -
• $I_m(\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda })=I_m(\mathcal {L}_5)=I_m(\mathcal {L}_8)={ I_m(\mathcal {L}_{11})}=\mathbb {F}$
.
Theorem 4.2 implies that
$z_1,\ldots , z_m\in I_m(\mathcal {L})$
for every
$\mathcal {L}$
from the following list:
$\mathcal {L}_1$
,
$\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}}$
,
$\mathcal {L}_3$
,
$\mathcal {L}_7$
,
$\mathcal {L}_9$
,
$\mathcal {L}_{10}$
. Thus, the statement of the theorem holds for algebras
$\mathcal {L}_1$
,
$\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}}$
,
$\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_5$
,
$\mathcal {L}_7$
,
$\mathcal {L}_8$
,
$\mathcal {L}_{10}$
,
$\mathcal {L}_{11}$
.
Consider the algebra
$\mathcal {L}_3$
. The subspace
$V=\mathbb {F}\text {-span}\{e_1,e_3\}$
is invariant with respect to
$\mathrm { Aut}(\mathcal {L}_3)$
and the restriction of
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L}_3)$
to V is the set of all matrices

for all
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}$
. Then, applying Lemma 3.5, we prove the statement about
$\mathcal {L}_3$
.
Consider the algebra
$\mathcal {L}_6$
. Note that
$z_r z_s \in I_m(\mathcal {L}_6)$
for all
$1\leqslant r\leqslant s\leqslant m$
by Theorem 4.2. Then, a monomial in
$z_1,\ldots ,z_m$
lies in
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_6)$
if and only if it has even degree. Restricting the group
$\mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L}_6)$
to
$\mathbb {F}\text {-span}\{e_3\}$
and applying Lemma 3.4, we conclude the proof about
$\mathcal {L}_6$
.
Consider the algebra
$\mathcal {L}_9$
. Using formulas (5.1), we can see that
$(x_r-y_r) z_s - z_r (x_s-y_s)$
lies in
$I_m(\mathcal {L}_9)$
. For every
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}\backslash \{-1\},$
consider an automorphism

of
$\mathcal {L}_9$
(see Theorem 4.2). For
$e_1'=e_1-e_2$
, we have that
For
$x_r'=x_r-y_r$
, we have that
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {L}^m]=\mathbb {F}[x^{\prime }_r,y_r,z_r\,|\,1\leqslant r\leqslant m]$
, and until the end of this proof, we consider elements of
$\mathbb {F}[\mathcal {L}^m]$
as linear combinations of monomials in
$x^{\prime }_r$
,
$y_r$
,
$z_r$
.
For each
$m\geqslant 0$
, denote by
$\Omega _m$
the set of all monomials
$w=w_1\dots w_m \in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {L}^m]$
of multidegree
$1^m$
for some
$w_r\in \{x^{\prime }_r,y_r,z_r\}$
, where
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m$
. Given
$w\in \Omega _m$
, denote
As an example, for
$m=3,$
we have
$\deg _y(z_1 x^{\prime }_2y_3)=1$
and
$\deg _y(x^{\prime }_1y_2y_3) =2$
. Introduce a complete order on
$\Omega _m$
as follows: for
$v=v_1\dots v_m$
and
$w=w_1\dots w_m$
from
$\Omega _m$
, we have
$v< w$
if and only if
-
(a) $\deg _y(v)<\deg _y(w)$
, or -
(b) $\deg _y(v)=\deg _y(w)$
and
$\deg _x(v)<\deg _x(w)$
, or -
(c) $\deg _y(v)=\deg _y(w)$
,
$\deg _x(v)=\deg _x(w)$
, and there exists
$1\leqslant r\leqslant m$
with -
• $v_1=w_1, \ldots , v_{r-1}=w_{r-1}$
, -
• $(v_r,w_r)$
is one of the following pairs:
$(x^{\prime }_r,y_r)$
,
$(z_r,y_r)$
,
$(z_r,x^{\prime }_r)$
.
-
As an example, for
$m=3,$
we have
For a multilinear
$f=\sum _j \beta _j w_j\in \mathbb {F}[\mathcal {L}^m]$
with non-zero
$\beta _j\in \mathbb {F}$
and
$w_j\in \Omega _m$
, we say that
$w_{j_0}$
is the highest term for f, if there is no
$j\neq j_0$
with
$w_j>w_{j_0}$
. Note that the highest term for f always exists and is unique.
Consider a multilinear
$f=\beta w + \sum _j \beta _j w_j\in I_m(\mathcal {L})$
with non-zero
$\beta ,\beta _j\in \mathbb {F}$
and
$w,w_j\in \Omega _m$
, where w is the highest term for f. Without loss of generality, we can assume that
where
$0\leqslant r\leqslant s\leqslant m$
. Formulas (5.1) and (5.2) imply that
It is easy to see that w is also the highest term of
$g^{-1}f$
with the coefficient
$(\alpha +1)^{s-r}$
. Therefore,
$(\alpha +1)^{s-r}=1$
for all
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}\backslash \{-1\}$
. Hence,
$s=r$
, i.e., w does not contain letters
$y_1,\ldots ,y_m$
. Hence,
$f\in \mathbb {F}[x^{\prime }_r,z_r\,|\,1\leqslant r\leqslant m]$
.
Note that the subspace
$V=\mathbb {F}\text {-span}\{e^{\prime }_1,e_3\}$
is invariant with respect to g and the restriction of g to V is

for all
$\alpha \in \mathbb {F}$
. Since the coordinate ring of V is
$\mathbb {F}[x^{\prime }_r,z_r\,|\,1\leqslant r\leqslant m]$
, applying Lemma 3.5, we conclude the proof of the statement about
$\mathcal {L}_9$
.
6 Trace invariants
Assume that
$n=3$
. Writing down
$M_{ij}$
as
$M_{ij}=(M_{ij1},M_{ij2},M_{ij3})$
, we can see that formula (3.1) implies that


Proposition 6.1 For every
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
,
$m>0,$
and
$1\leqslant r,s\leqslant m,$
we have the following trace formulas:
Proof We take tableaux of multiplication for Leibniz algebras from Theorem 4.1. To calculate traces
$\mathrm { tr}(\chi _r \chi _0)$
and
$\mathrm {tr}(\chi _0 \chi _r),$
we apply equalities (6.1) and (6.2), respectively. To calculate the rest of the traces, we apply Proposition 3.1.
Corollary 6.2 Artin–Procesi–Iltyakov Equality does not hold for
$\mathcal {L} \in \mathbf {L}_3$
if and only if
$\mathcal {L}$
is isomorphic to
$\mathcal {L}_3$
or
$\mathcal {L}_9$
.
Proof We apply Proposition 3.1, Theorem 5.1, part (c) of Remark 2.1, and the fact that the algebra
$I_m(\mathcal {L})$
has
$\mathbb {N}^m$
-grading by multidegrees.
Proposition 6.3 We have
-
• $\mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda })=\mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {L}_5)={ \mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {L}_{11})}=3$
for all
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
; -
• $\mathrm {ncl}(\mathcal {L}_8)=4$
; -
• the algebras $\mathcal {L}_1$
,
$\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}}$
,
$\mathcal {L}_3$
,
$\mathcal {L}_6$
,
$\mathcal {L}_7^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_9$
,
$\mathcal {L}_{10}$
are not nilpotent for all
$\lambda \in \mathbb {F}$
.
Proof For the algebras
$\mathcal {L}_1$
,
$\mathcal {L}_2^{{\lambda \neq 0}}$
,
$\mathcal {L}_3$
,
$\mathcal {L}_6$
,
$\mathcal {L}_7^{\lambda }$
, the elements
$(\cdots ((e_2 e_3) e_3) \cdots )e_3$
are non-zero. Similarly,
$(\cdots ((e_1 e_3) e_3) \cdots )e_3\neq 0$
in
$\mathcal {L}_9$
and in
$\mathcal {L}_{10}$
. Since
$(e_3 e_3)e_3=e_2\neq 0$
in
$\mathcal {L}_8$
, we can see that
$\mathrm { ncl}(\mathcal {L}_8)=4$
. The cases of
$\mathcal {L}_4^{\lambda }$
,
$\mathcal {L}_5$
, and
$\mathcal {L}_{11}$
are trivial.
Corollary 6.4 For an algebra
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
, the following four conditions are equivalent:
-
(a) the algebra of invariants $I_m(\mathcal {L})$
is
$\mathbb {F}$
for all
$m\geqslant 1$
; -
(b) the algebra of invariants $I_1(\mathcal {L})$
is
$\mathbb {F}$
; -
(c) the algebra $\mathcal {L}$
is nilpotent; -
(d) $\mathrm {tr}(\chi _0 \chi _1)=\mathrm {tr}((\chi _0 \chi _1) \chi _1) = 0$
for
$\mathcal {L}$
.
Corollary 6.5 Two non-nilpotent algebras from
$\mathbf {L}_3$
can be distinguished by means of the traces of degrees
$\leqslant 2$
and the dimensions of its groups of automorphisms. That is, given
$\mathcal {L}\in \mathbf {L}_3$
, denote
$d=\dim \mathrm {Aut}(\mathcal {L})$
. Then,
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to the anonymous referee for the valuable and constructive comments, which have helped us improve the quality and clarity of our article.
