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This paper deals with the classification of Leibniz central extensions of a naturally graded filiform Lie algebra. We choose a basis with respect to that the table of multiplication has a simple form. In low dimensional cases isomorphism…

The aim of this paper is to study co-prolongations of central extensions. We construct the obstruction theory for co-prolongations and classify the equivalence classes of these by kernels of a homomorphisms between 2-dimensional cohomology…

A p-group G is p-central if the central quotient has exponent p. We prove that for a subset of finite p-central p-groups, the order of the group G divides the order of Aut(G).

Given a central extension of Lie groups, we study the classification problem of lifting the structure group together with a given connection. For reductive structure groups we introduce a new connective structure on the lifting gerbe…

We construct and study pushforwards of categorical connections on categorical principal bundles. Applying this construction to the case of decorated path spaces in principal bundles, we obtain a transformation of classical connections that…

We present a geometric construction of central extensions of covering groups of the group of volume preserving diffeomorphisms, integrating central extensions of the Lie algebra of divergence free vector fields defined by Lichnerowicz…

For each positive integer $k$, the bundle of $k$-jets of functions from a smooth manifold, $X$, to a Lie group, $G$, is denoted by $J^k(X,G)$ and it is canonically endowed with a Lie groupoid structure over $X$. In this work, we utilize a…

Given a free group $\Gamma$ of finite rank $n$ and a prime number $p,$ denote by $\Gamma_k^\bullet$ the $k^\text{th}$ layer of the Stallings ($\bullet=S$) or Zassenhaus ($\bullet=Z$) $p$-central series, by $\mathcal{N}_{k}^\bullet$ the…

Mickelsson defined a group 2-cocycle on the group of smooth maps from the closed unit 2-disk to a Lie group G and constructed a smooth central extension on a loop group of G, called the affine Kac-Moody central extension. We reformulate…

We construct the universal central extension of the Lie algebra of exact divergence-free vector fields, proving a conjecture by Claude Roger from 1995. The proof relies on the analysis of a Leibniz algebra that underlies these vector…

We show that for any $n$-ary group $(G,f)$, the group $Aut(G,f)$ can be embedded in $Aut(\mathbb{Z}_{n-1}\ltimes G)$ and so we can obtain a class of interesting automorphisms of cyclic extensions.

Given a connected reductive algebraic group G, we investigate the Picard group of the moduli stack of principal G-bundles over an arbitrary family of smooth curves.

In this paper, we present the construction of a geometric object, called a generalized flag geometry, $(X^+;X^-)$, corresponding to a (2k +1)-graded Lie algebra $g=g_k\oplus\dots\oplus g_{-k}$. We prove that $(X^+;X^-) can be realized…

For a Poisson manifold $M$ we develop systematic methods to compute its Picard group $Pic(M)$, i.e., its group of self Morita equivalences. We establish a precise relationship between $Pic(M)$ and the group of gauge transformations up to…

Basing ourselves on the categorical notions of central extensions and commutators in the framework of semi-abelian categories relative to a Birkhoff subcategory, we study central extensions of Leibniz algebras with respect to the Birkhoff…

We consider the coordinate ring of a hyperelliptic curve and let $\mathfrak{g}\otimes R$ be the corresponding current Lie algebra where $\mathfrak g$ is a finite dimensional simple Lie algebra defined over $\mathbb C$. We give a generator…

Let G be an affine reductive algebraic group over an algebraically closed field k. We determine the Picard group of the moduli stacks of principal G-bundles on any smooth projective curve over k.

It is shown that every quantum principal bundle with a compact structure group is a Hopf-Galois extension. This property naturally extends to the level of general differential structures, so that every differential calculus over a quantum…

For simply connected compact exceptional Lie groups $G = F_4, E_6$ and $E_7$, we consider two involutions $\sigma, \gamma$ and determine the group structure of subgroups $G^{\sigma,\gamma}$ of $G$ which are the intersection $G^\sigma \cap…

We study the geometry of determinant line bundles associated to Dirac operators on compact odd dimensional manifolds. Physically, these arise as (local) vacuum line bundles in quantum gauge theory. We give a simplified derivation of the…