1. Introduction
To begin, we recall the definition of a Lie bundle. Let
be finite dimensional vector spaces. If for any
and any
, we can define Lie bracket on
V
which is linear in
then the pair
is called a linear bundle of Lie algebras or a Lie bundle, see [
1,
2,
3]. A simple consequence of the definition is that the Lie brackets are compatible in the sense that their linear combination is again a Lie bracket
where
.
A classical example of such a structure is obtained by taking the space of skew-symmetric matrices
as
V, which we denote by
, and the space of symmetric matrices as
W, which we denote by
. A family of compatible brackets for this case is given by the following formula
where
. As a special case for
, we obtain the standard matrix commutator and Lie algebra
. The Lie bundle
appears in many places in the theory of integrable systems. Morosi and Pizzocchero, for example, in [
4], used those brackets to construct recursion giving the Mischenko and Manakov integrals of motion for the Euler equation of an
n-dimensional rigid body. In the paper [
1], Bolsinov and Borisov applied those brackets to investigate the problem of multidimensional Euler and Clebsh equations. Those brackets were also used to analyze Clebsh and Neumann systems in [
3]. We recommend the articles [
5,
6,
7], where the bracket (
2) or some of its modification were used to consider some integrable systems.
The Lie bundle
also suggests another linear bundle of Lie algebras
with family of brackets given by
where
. This structure, for example, was considered in [
8].
Brackets of this type were already described by Cantor and Persits in [
9]. A detailed analysis of the situation for
was done by Dali in [
10]. In addition, Kiranagi with collaborators studied Lie algebra bundles in a general situation, see, e.g., [
11].
If we have a Lie algebra
, then we can think about its generalization in two different ways. On one hand, we can deform the Lie bracket
, see, for example [
12], without changing the set
. On the other hand, we can leave the Lie bracket in the unchanged form and only deform the set by introducing some parameters, which will give us new algebra if we let some of those parameters tend to zero, see [
13,
14]. In our article, we will consider both of these approaches—contractions and deformations of Lie algebras.
Our base Lie algebra is
. We already know that the modification of the Lie bracket by a symmetric matrix (
2) gives us again a Lie algebra. We can expand the set of skew-symmetric matrices by introducing
real parameters
, see [
15,
16]. This construction gives us a large family of algebras, which are called quasisimple Cayley–Klein algebras of the orthogonal type. Analysis of this kind of algebras applied to bi-Hamiltonian structures, which they generate, was given in [
6,
17]. Articles [
18,
19] show us those algebras in consideration with Minkowski spacetime.
Moreover, we will also modify the set of symmetric matrices, for instance, by introducing parameters
. After that modification, with some given parameters, we will still have a Lie bundle. We will analyze when (for different parameter systems) those Lie bundles will be compatible, in the sense that their linear combination will give us a different Lie bundle, which corresponds to the compatible Poisson structure on the dual space (the same for all of these algebras). Next, we will show that the notion of bi-Hamiltonian structure, which is very useful for studying integrable systems, see [
20], can also be used in the classification of Lie algebras. The standard classification of Lie algebras is based on the Levi–Malcev theorem, which says that any finite-dimensional Lie algebra can be represented as the semi-direct sum of the radical
and a semisimple subalgebra
, i.e.,
. Then, one needs a classification of all semisimple algebras, all solvable algebras and all possible linear actions of the semisimple algebras
on the radical
. The problem of classifying real Lie algebras is completely solved for Lie algebras up to dimension six. Bianki [
21] first classified the tree-dimensional real Lie algebras. All the possible real Lie algebras of a dimension up to and including four were listed by Mubarakzyanov [
22]. For more detail, see [
23,
24,
25,
26,
27] and the references therein. In our considerations, we will look at this problem from another point of view and attempt the classification according to membership of suitable Lie bundles.
The paper is organized as follows. In the beginning, we will recall basic facts about Poisson brackets (in particular, linear structure) and bi-Hamiltonian structure. Next, we discuss generalizations of the Lie bundle
by the introduction of real parameters
and partially replacing the vector space indexing Lie brackets (symmetric matrices or quasisimple symmetric matrices) by any matrices.
Section 3 is devoted to analysis of families of brackets associated with real three-dimensional Lie algebras. In the next section, we consider Lie bundles generating real four-dimensional Lie algebras.
2. Bi-Hamiltonian Structure and Lie Bundles Parametrized by a Finite Sequence of Parameters
The main aim of this section is to recall basic facts about Lie algebras, Poisson manifolds and the relation between those two.
Let us consider a finite-dimensional manifold
M. A Poisson bracket is a bilinear and skew-symmetric operation that satisfies the following conditions:
for all
. The first of these conditions is usually called the Jacobi identity, and the second is the Leibniz rule. A manifold
M with this bracket is called a Poisson manifold
.
If
is a system of local coordinates on
M, then the Poisson bracket can be presented in the form
where
is called a Poisson tensor. The components of this tensor are given by the formula
, and it satisfies the following system of equations, equivalent to the Jacobi identity,
which is equivalent to the vanishing of the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket.
If depends on in a linear way, we say we have a linear Poisson structure on M.
In this paper, an important example of Poisson structure will be the so-called Lie–Poisson bracket. Let
be a real
n-dimensional Lie algebra. It is a well-known fact that on the dual space
, there exists a canonical Poisson structure. This bracket is called Lie–Poisson, and it is given by the following formula
where
. Let
be a basis of
. Using the structure constants
of this Lie algebra
, one can express the Poisson tensor as a linear function
. This gives a one-to-one correspondence between the linear Poisson structures and Lie algebras.
We say that two Poisson tensors
and
are compatible if any linear combination
is also a Poisson tensor. The Poisson structures
and
on
M are compatible if and only if their Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket vanishes, which means that
The manifold M equipped with two compatible Poisson structures and is called the bi-Hamiltonian manifold, and we denote it as
Let us consider sets of square matrices
and
where
are fixed real numbers. Elements of these sets can be represented as follows
It was shown in [
15,
16] that the set
with the standard commutator is a Lie algebra. This Lie algebra depends on
parameters and is called a quasisimple orthogonal algebra. In the case, when all these parameters are nonzero, it is isomorphic to the Lie algebra
or
. A more interesting situation is when some of the parameters are equal to zero. For instance, when
and all others are nonzero, we get a contraction in the sense of Inönü–Wigner to the Euclidean algebra
or the Poincaré algebra
The infinite dimensional case was considered in papers [
6,
28].
In our article, we will only be interested in the finite-dimensional case, with the family of brackets given by
where
. We denote this Lie bundle by
. This case was studied in detail in [
29].
The dual space
to the algebra
can be identified with the set of upper triangular matrices
with the pairing given by the trace
Thus, the Lie bundle
introduces a family of Lie–Poisson brackets on the dual space
:
This family of brackets is indexed by
. For fixed
the Lie bracket from Equation (
12) is linear in
S, and consequently, the Lie–Poisson brackets are compatible.
There are known Casimir functions for the Lie bracket (
14) in the case when
and
given by
see [
2]. In the case when parameters
are non-zero but not equal to one, this family has to be modified
where
, see [
29]. In the situation when it is allowed that some of the parameters
are equal to zero, we get
where
. However, in this case, not all of the functions have to be included.
The Lie bundle
can be generalized to the case when some parameters
are equal to zero. Let us suppose that
where
is an increasing sequence, then both of the elements of
and
can be written in block form as
where
, and * denotes arbitrary matrices of suitable sizes. If blocks
and
are
then it is easy to see that
Then nothing prevents us from replacing the almost symmetric matrix (we called it quasisimple symmetric matrix)
with any
matrix
because the property
is still fulfilled. We will denote by
the set of matrices
S of the form (
18), where blocks
in case
can be replaced by
Proposition 1. A pair is a linear bundle of Lie algebras.
In this case, we will allow that matrix elements are complex numbers. It turns out that for low dimensional Lie algebras, those two families of Lie bundles, which are dependent on parameters , are sufficient for the classification of Lie algebras. In the next sections, it will be shown on three- and four-dimensional Lie algebras that all of these algebras belong to the Lie bundle or .
3. Three-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Lie Bundles
First Lie bundle.
Let us consider the Lie algebra
with the standard commutator. Note that
as a set coincides with it but carries another Lie bracket
where
and
We assume the forms of
and
as follows
From the definition in Equation (
14), we get the Lie–Poisson bracket on the dual space
to the Lie algebra
In our calculation, we took
of the form
Thus, the matrix of the Poisson tensor assumes the following form
Second Lie bundle.
We can also get another Lie–Poisson bracket
by taking
and
as follows
Using a similar calculation as in Equation (
21), we get the next Lie–Poisson bracket
Thus, the matrix of the Poisson tensor in this case is given by
Table 1 describes which Lie–Poisson structures that are related to the three-dimensional Lie algebras
according to the classification taken from [
30], can be obtained from those two brackets. An isomorphism is given by mapping
It is easy to see that some of them can be obtained from both Equations (
19) and (
23). Furthermore, these brackets split all of these three-dimensional Lie algebras into two families—algebras in the same family are all compatible with each other but not with those from the other one.
We get two families:
family I: | , |
family II: | . |
Obviously, we would get the same result by analyzing the compatibility of Lie–Poisson structures related, respectively, to those three-dimensional Lie algebras, see
Table 2.
Belonging to the appropriate family of a Lie bundle also requires that Casimirs for the Poisson bracket (respectively, invariants for Lie algebras) are generally described by one function. For the first family of Lie algebras, after direct calculation from Equation (
15), we get
Table 3 displays the results in some specific situations. For the second family, the Casimir functions can be obtained by solving the linear first order partial differential equation
4. Four-Dimensional Lie Algebras and Lie Bundles
Let us consider all real Lie algebras of dimension equal to four. A complete list of these algebras is given, for example, by Mubarakzyanov [
22]. There are twelve real algebras of dimension four, and five of them depend on parameters. Our list of algebras gathered in
Table 4 is based on the article [
30].
On the dual space of Lie algebras , there are Poisson structures defined by Poisson tensors
Table 5 describes if the above structures are compatible in sense (
8), i.e.,
equipped with these is a bi-Hamiltonian manifold. From this table, we can see that we have three families of compatible structures, which are:
family I: | , |
family II: | |
family III: | . |
First Lie bundle.
The first family can be obtain by taking the bracket
where
and
are matrices of the form
After direct calculation from Equation (
14), we get the following formula
where
is an upper triangular matrix given by
As we can see, we obtained six-dimensional cases. To get our four-dimensional families, we limit ourselves to variables
by putting
and
. This means restricting to the subspaces
and
, whose elements are given by
Then we get a four-dimensional Lie subalgebra with bracket
We get the Lie–Poisson structure related to the Lie algebra by putting and the other parameters equal to zero in matrix . To get the Lie–Poisson structure associated with the Lie algebra in matrix , we put and all others parameters equal to zero. To get the Lie–Poisson structure associated with Lie algebra , we put and other parameters equal to zero in matrix . In these cases, an isomorphism is given by the mapping .
In
Table 6, there are Lie–Poisson structures related to four-dimensional Lie algebras
from the first family that can be obtained from bracket (
31) by choosing a suitable matrix
and putting
.
Second Lie bundle.
The second family can be obtained by taking the bracket
where
are matrices of the form
After direct calculation similar to Equation (
31), we obtain the following formula
where
is defined in Equation (
32). As we can see, we obtained a six–dimensional case.
We recognize in (
37) the Lie–Poisson structure related to
if we put
and other parameters equal to zero in matrix
given by Equation (
36). Similarly, putting in matrix
as nonzero elements only
and
, we get the Lie–Poisson structure associated with
. In both these cases, an isomorphism is given by the mapping
. Moreover, in Equation (
37), we can find the Lie–Poisson structures related to
and
by a suitable choice of the matrix
and putting
, see
Table 7. In these cases, an isomorphism is given by
. If we take the isomorphism
and as nonzero elements in matrix
, we put
and
,
,
,
,
, then bracket (
35) gives us the algebra
. We get the Lie algebra
taking matrix
, as in
Table 7, and putting
,
,
. In this case, an isomorphism is given by
. Similar to previous families, we get also matrix representation of these algebras, see the fourth column of
Table 7. We get an analogue of Ado’s theorem, see [
31,
32].
Third Lie bundle.
The third family is more complicated. The first part can be obtained by taking bracket
where
and
assume following forms
After direct calculation from Equation (
14), we get the following Lie–Poisson bracket
where
is a upper triangular matrix given by Equation (
32).
We recognize in (
40) the Lie–Poisson structure related to
if we take
, as in
Table 8, and put
. An isomorphism is given by the mapping
. If we take the isomorphism
and as nonzero element in matrix
, we put
and
, then the bracket (
40) gives us the algebra
. We obtain the Lie algebra
by taking matrix
as in
Table 8. In this case an isomorphism is given by
. We put
,
,
. Let us also note that using Lie bundles gives matrix representations of these Lie algebras as subsets of
. Generators of these subsets are presented in the third column of
Table 8.
Lie algebras
were obtained in the construction called the second bundle (see
Table 7). If so, we have also their representation for sub-cases when
, respectively, see
Table 7.
The three remaining Lie algebras, i.e.,
, can be obtained using the bi-Hamiltonian construction on the Lie algebras from
Table 7 and
Table 8. Lie algebra
can be obtained from algebras
and
. We have
. In a similar way, we can get
from
and
:
. The last Lie algebra
is given by taking Lie algebras
:
.
5. Conclusions
We proposed a new approach to the classification of low-dimensional Lie algebras using concepts well known in the theory of integrable systems, such as the bi-Hamiltonian structure. In the case of three-Dimensional Lie algebras, we were able to describe them using two families of linear bundles of Lie algebras. In the case of the four-dimensional Lie algebras, we described them in terms of three such families. In the future, we plan to use these tools to study higher dimensional Lie algebras.
The bi-Hamilton property is very useful in the study of integrable systems. Let us consider the well-known Euler equations for
:
The Euler top describes the rotation of a heavy rigid body around its fixed center of mass without any forces acting on the body. Equation (
41) possess a bi-Hamiltonian structure
The Poisson brackets
and
are defined by Equation (
21), where we restrict our considerations to diagonal matrices
and
. The Casimirs for these structures assume the following form (see Equation (
27))
respectively. Choosing as the Hamiltonian
the Casimir
and as Hamiltonian
the Casimir
, we obtain Equation (
42). Of course, the first Poisson bracket is associated with the Lie algebra
. We can look at the second Poisson bracket as a collection of three brackets corresponding to the Lie algebra
for matrices:
respectively (see
Table 1).
Now, we discuss another example of a Lie bundle. We now turn to the Clebsch system of the motion of a rigid body in an ideal fluid
In vector notation, the system hast the form:
where
,
and
. Equation (
45) possesses a bi-Hamiltonian structure
The Poisson bracket
is defined by Equation (
40), where we restrict our considerations to diagonal matrix
. However, the same Poisson bracket is also obtained from Equation (
12), where
. The second Poisson bracket
is given by Equation (
12), where
. We consider the Poisson pencil
,
. This Poisson bracket can also be obtained from Equation (
12) for matrix
. The Casimir (one of the functions) for this structure assumes the following form (see Equation (
15)):
This Casimir function can be expanded into a power series with respect to
. By using power series decomposition, we get
, where
is the Casimir for the first bracket and
Choosing as the first Hamiltonian the function
and as Hamiltonian
the Casimir
, we obtain Equation (
48). The first Poisson bracket is associated with the Lie algebra
. We can look at the second Poisson bracket as a collection of four brackets corresponding to the nilpotent Lie algebra
(we use the classification from [
30]) for matrices:
respectively.