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    Universal central extensions of direct limits of Lie superalgebras

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    We show that the universal central extension of a direct limit of perfect Lie superalgebras L_i is (isomorphic to) the direct limit of the universal central extensions of L_i. As an application we describe the universal central extensions of some infinite rank Lie superalgebras

    Global splittings and super Harish-Chandra pairs for affine supergroups

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    This paper dwells upon two aspects of affine supergroup theory, investigating the links among them. First, I discuss the "splitting" properties of affine supergroups, i.e. special kinds of factorizations they may admit - either globally, or pointwise. Second, I present a new contribution to the study of affine supergroups by means of super Harish-Chandra pairs (a method already introduced by Koszul, and later extended by other authors). Namely, I provide an explicit, functorial construction \Psi which, with each super Harish-Chandra pair, associates an affine supergroup that is always globally strongly split (in short, gs-split) - thus setting a link with the first part of the paper. On the other hand, there exists a natural functor \Phi from affine supergroups to super Harish-Chandra pairs: then I show that the new functor \Psi - which goes the other way round - is indeed a quasi-inverse to \Phi, provided we restrict our attention to the subcategory of affine supergroups that are gs-split. Therefore, (the restrictions of) \Phi and \Psi are equivalences between the categories of gs-split affine supergroups and of super Harish-Chandra pairs. Such a result was known in other contexts, such as the smooth differential or the complex analytic one, or in some special cases, via different approaches: the novelty in the present paper lies in that I construct a different functor \Psi and thus extend the result to a much larger setup, with a totally different, more geometrical method (very concrete indeed, and characteristic free). The case of linear algebraic groups is treated also as an intermediate, inspiring step. Some examples, applications and further generalizations are presented at the end of the paper.Comment: La-TeX file, 48 pages. Final revised version, *after correcting the galley proofs* - to appear in "Transactions of the AMS
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