10. Lie commutators and nonabelian Lie tensors
  
      | Functions on this page are joint work with Hamid Mohammadzadeh, and implemented by him.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        | 
      |  LieCoveringHomomorphism(L) Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field, and returns a surjective Lie homomorphism phi : C-> L where: -- the kernel of phi lies in both the centre of C and the derived subalgebra of C, -- the kernel of phi is a vector space of rank equal to the rank of the second Chevalley-Eilenberg homology of L.                                                                                                                                          | 
      |  LeibnizQuasiCoveringHomomorphism(L) Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field, and returns a surjective homomorphism phi : C-> L of Leibniz algebras where: -- the kernel of phi lies in both the centre of C and the derived subalgebra of C, -- the kernel of phi is a vector space of rank equal to the rank of the kernel J of the homomorphism L otimes L -> L from the tensor square to L. (We note that, in general, J is NOT equal to the second Leibniz homology of L.) | 
      |  LieEpiCentre(L) Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field, and returns an ideal Z^*(L) of the centre of L. The ideal Z^*(L) is trivial if and only if L is isomorphic to a quotient L=E/Z(E) of some Lie algebra E by the centre of E.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 
      |  LieExteriorSquare(L)  Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field. It returns a record E with the following components. -- E.homomorphism is a Lie homomorphism µ : (L wedge L) --> L from the nonabelian exterior square (L wedge L) to L. The kernel of µ is the Lie multiplier. -- E.pairing(x,y) is a function which inputs elements x, y in L and returns (x wedge y) in the exterior square (L wedge L) .                                                                    | 
      |  LieTensorSquare(L)  Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field and returns a record T with the following components. -- T.homomorphism is a Lie homomorphism µ : (L otimes L) --> L from the nonabelian tensor square of L to L. -- T.pairing(x,y) is a function which inputs two elements x, y in L and returns the tensor (x otimes y) in the tensor square (L otimes L) .                                                                                                      | 
      |  LieTensorCentre(L)  Inputs a finite dimensional Lie algebra L over a field and returns the largest ideal N such that the induced homomorphism of nonabelian tensor squares (L otimes L) --> (L/N otimes L/N) is an isomorphism.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |