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Corrigendum: “On the representability of actions of Leibniz algebras and Poisson algebras”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2025

Alan S. Cigoli
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica “Giuseppe Peano”, Università degli Studi di Torino, via Carlo Alberto 10, 10123 Torino, Italy (alan.cigoli@unito.it)
Manuel Mancini
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli Studi di Palermo, via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy (manuel.mancini@unipa.it) Institut de Recherche en Mathématique et Physique, Université catholique de Louvain, chemin du cyclotron 2 bte L7.01.02, B–1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (manuel.mancini@uclouvain.be)
Giuseppe Metere
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze per gli Alimenti, la Nutrizione e l’Ambiente, Università degli Studi di Milano Statale, via Luigi Mangiagalli 25, 20133, Milano, Italy (giuseppe.metere@unimi.it)
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Abstract

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© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Edinburgh Mathematical Society

In the article [Reference Cigoli, Mancini and Metere2], the representability of actions of the categories ${\mathbf{LeibAlg}}_{\mathbb{F}}$ of Leibniz algebras and ${\mathbf{PoisAlg}}_{\mathbb{F}}$ of Poisson algebras was studied. It was proved that ${\mathbf{LeibAlg}}_{\mathbb{F}}$ is a weakly action representable category, with a weak actor of a Leibniz algebra $\mathfrak{g}$ being the Leibniz algebra $\operatorname{Bider}(\mathfrak{g})$ of biderivations of $\mathfrak{g}$.

We recently discovered that the proofs (ii) $\Rightarrow$ (i) of Theorem 5.9 and Theorem 5.10 are not correct. More in detail, the composition $i^* \circ \mu \circ \tau^{-1}$ gives rise to a monomorphism of functors:

\begin{equation*} \operatorname{Hom}_{\mathbf{NAlg}^2_{\mathbb{F}}}(U(-),[V]) \rightarrowtail \operatorname{Hom}_{\mathbf{NAlg}^2_{\mathbb{F}}}(U(-),M), \end{equation*}

where $U \colon \mathbf{PoisAlg}_{\mathbb{F}} \rightarrow {\mathbf{NAlg}}^2_{\mathbb{F}}$ denotes the forgetful functor. Thus, the Yoneda Lemma cannot be applied and we cannot conclude that $[V]$ is a Poisson algebra.

As a consequence, we cannot conclude that the category $\mathbf{CPoisAlg}_{\mathbb{F}}$ of commutative Poisson algebra is not weakly action representable and the open problem at the end of the manuscript is not correctly stated. We have attempted to resolve this issue but unfortunately we have not been successful.

However, the other statements of Section 5 of the manuscript are not affected by this mistake and the open problem can be rephrased as follows.

Open Problem

Our investigation does not clarify whether the categories ${\mathbf{PoisAlg}}_{\mathbb{F}}$ and ${\mathbf{CPoisAlg}}_{\mathbb{F}}$ are weakly action representable or not. Nevertheless, the explicit construction of the universal strict general actor $\operatorname{USGA}(V)$ provides an operational tool to represent actions on/split extensions by a (commutative) Poisson algebra V. Notice that this construction was generalized for a general variety of non-associative algebras over a field in [Reference Brox, García-Martínez, Mancini, Van der Linden and Vienne1], where the authors proved that the category of commutative associative algebras is weakly action representable, even though the USGA is not an object of it (see [Reference Brox, García-Martínez, Mancini, Van der Linden and Vienne1, Theorem 2.11]).

We further observe that the first examples of action accessible varieties of non-associative algebras that fail to be weakly action representable were found in [Reference García-Martínez and Mancini3], where it was proved that the categories of n-solvable Lie algebras ( $n \geq 2$) and k-nilpotent Lie algebras ( $k \geq 3$) do not satisfy weak action representability.

Acknowledgement

This work is supported by the University of Milan, University of Palermo, University of Turin and by the “National Group for Algebraic and Geometric Structures, and their Applications” (GNSAGA – INdAM). The second author is also a postdoctoral researcher of the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique–FNRS.

References

Brox, J., García-Martínez, X., Mancini, M., Van der Linden, T., and Vienne, C., Weak representability of actions of non-associative algebras, Journal of Algebra 669: (2025), 401444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jalgebra.2025.02.007CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cigoli, A. S., Mancini, M. and Metere, G., On the representability of actions of Leibniz algebras and Poisson algebras, Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society 66(4): (2023), 9981021. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0013091523000548CrossRefGoogle Scholar
García-Martínez, X., and Mancini, M., Action accessible and weakly action representable varieties of algebras, Bollettino dell’Unione Matematica Italiana (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40574-025-00496-1CrossRefGoogle Scholar