Lie antialgebras: premices

The main purpose of this work is to develop the basic notions of the Lie theory for commutative algebras. We introduce a class of \mathbbZ_2-graded commutative but not associative algebras that we call ``Lie antialgebras''. These algebras are closely related to Lie (super)algebras and, in some sense, link together commutative and Lie algebras. The main notions we define in this paper are: representations of Lie antialgebras, an analog of the Lie-Poisson bivector (which is not Poisson) and central extensions. We also classify simple finite-dimensional Lie antialgebras.Comment: This is the final versio

Vector fields in the presence of a contact structure

We consider the Lie algebra of all vector fields on a contact manifold as a module over the Lie subalgebra of contact vector fields. This module is split into a direct sum of two submodules: the contact algebra itself and the space of tangent vector fields. We study the geometric nature of these two modules.Comment: 10 page

Coxeter's frieze patterns and discretization of the Virasoro orbit

We show that the space of classical Coxeter's frieze patterns can be viewed as a discrete version of a coadjoint orbit of the Virasoro algebra. The canonical (cluster) (pre)symplectic form on the space of frieze patterns is a discretization of the Kirillov symplectic form. We relate a continuous version of frieze patterns to conformal metrics of constant curvature in dimension 2.Comment: typos correcte