Remarks on the Schwarzian Derivatives and the Invariant Quantization by means of a Finsler Function

Let $(M,F)$ be a Finsler manifold. We construct a 1-cocycle on \Diff(M) with values in the space of differential operators acting on sections of some bundles, by means of the Finsler function $F.$ As an operator, it has several expressions: in terms of the Chern, Berwald, Cartan or Hashiguchi connection, although its cohomology class does not depend on them. This cocycle is closely related to the conformal Schwarzian derivatives introduced in our previous work. The second main result of this paper is to discuss some properties of the conformally invariant quantization map by means of a Sazaki (type) metric on the slit bundle $TM\backslash 0$ induced by $F.$Comment: 17 pages; no figures; Latex2e; the exposition has been improved and new results have been added; to appear in Indag. Mat

Cartan matrices and presentations of the exceptional simple Elduque Lie superalgebra

Recently Alberto Elduque listed all simple and graded modulo 2 finite dimensional Lie algebras and superalgebras whose odd component is the spinor representation of the orthogonal Lie algebra equal to the even component, and discovered one exceptional such Lie superalgebra in characteristic 5. For this Lie superalgebra all inequivalent Cartan matrices (in other words, inequivalent systems of simple roots) are listed together with defining relations between analogs of its Chevalley generators.Comment: 5 pages, 1 figure, LaTeX2

Simple Lie superalgebras and nonintegrable distributions in characteristic p

Recently, Grozman and Leites returned to the original Cartan's description of Lie algebras to interpret the Melikyan algebras (for p<7) and several other little-known simple Lie algebras over algebraically closed fields for p=3 as subalgebras of Lie algebras of vector fields preserving nonintegrable distributions analogous to (or identical with) those preserved by G(2), O(7), Sp(4) and Sp(10). The description was performed in terms of Cartan-Tanaka-Shchepochkina prolongs using Shchepochkina's algorithm and with the help of SuperLie package. Grozman and Leites also found two new series of simple Lie algebras. Here we apply the same method to distributions preserved by one of the two exceptional simple finite dimensional Lie superalgebras over C; for p=3, we obtain a series of new simple Lie superalgebras and an exceptional one.Comment: 10 pages; no figure