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Deformations of 3-algebras

High Energy Physics - Theory 2010-01-15 v2

Abstract

We phrase deformations of n-Leibniz algebras in terms of the cohomology theory of the associated Leibniz algebra. We do the same for n-Lie algebras and for the metric versions of n-Leibniz and n-Lie algebras. We place particular emphasis on the case of n=3 and explore the deformations of 3-algebras of relevance to three-dimensional superconformal Chern--Simons theories with matter.

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@article{arxiv.0903.4871,
  title  = {Deformations of 3-algebras},
  author = {José Figueroa-O'Farrill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.4871},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

29 pages (V2: one error corrected: section 5.2 considerably shorter now)

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