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Symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2025

Samiha Hidri
Affiliation:
University of Gabes, Faculty of Sciences, Riadh Zerig, 6029, Gabes, Tunisia
Fahmi Mhamdi*
Affiliation:
University of Gafsa, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Mathematics, Zarroug, Gafsa, Tunisia
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Corresponding author: Fahmi Mhamdi; Email: fahmi.mhamdi@gmail.com
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Abstract

This paper focuses on quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras, defined as (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebras equipped with symmetric, non-degenerate, and invariant bilinear forms. In particular, we demonstrate that every quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra is symmetric, meaning that it is simultaneously a left and a right Hom–Leibniz algebra. We provide characterizations of symmetric (resp. quadratic) Hom–Leibniz algebras. We also investigate the $\mathrm{T}^*$-extensions of Hom–Leibniz algebras, establishing their compatibility with solvability and nilpotency. We study the equivalence of such extensions and provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a nilpotent quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra to be isometric to a $\mathrm{T}^*$-extension. Furthermore, through the procedure of double extension, which is a central extension followed by a generalized semi-direct product, we get an inductive description of all quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras, allowing us to reduce their study to that of quadratic regular Hom–Lie algebras. Finally, we construct several non-trivial examples of symmetric (resp. quadratic) Hom–Leibniz algebras.

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1. Introduction

Throughout this article, $\mathbb{K}$ is an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. The notion of (left or right) Leibniz algebra was introduced by A. Bloh in the 1960s (see [Reference Bloh22, Reference Bloh23]) and rediscovered by J.-L. Loday in 1993 as a non-commutative analog of Lie algebras (see [Reference Loday42]). Since then, many results of the theory of Lie algebras have been extended to Leibniz algebras (see [Reference Albeverio, Ayupov and Omirov3, Reference Cuvier31, Reference Karimjanov, Umrzaqov and Yusupov39, Reference Liu and Zheng41, Reference Mason and Yamskulna46]). Let us recall that a non-associative algebra is termed a left (resp. right) Leibniz algebra if the left (resp. right) multiplications are derivations. It is called a symmetric Leibniz algebra if it is both a left and a right Leibniz algebra. Historically, symmetric Leibniz algebras were initially mentioned by A. Bloh in [Reference Bloh24] under the name “two-sided D-algebras” and later reappeared in [Reference Mason and Yamskulna46]. Many examples and more information about these latter algebras can be found in [Reference Abid and Boucetta1, Reference Abid and Boucetta2, Reference Albuquerque, Barreiro, Benayadi, Boucetta and Sánchez4, Reference Benayadi12, Reference Benayadi and Hidri16, Reference Benayadi and Hidri17].

The theory of Hom–algebras emerged with the introduction of Hom–Lie algebras by J. T. Hartwig, D. Larsson, and S. D. Silvestrov in [Reference Hartwig, Larsson and Silvestrov37], aimed at characterizing structures on deformations of the Witt and Virasoro algebras. Hom–Lie algebras are $\mathbb{K}$ -vector spaces endowed with a bilinear skew-symmetric bracket that satisfies a twisted Jacobi identity. Following the original paper, Hom–Lie algebras were discussed intensively (see, e.g., [Reference Benayadi and Makhlouf19, Reference García-Delgado, Salgado and Sánchez-Valenzuela35, Reference Hurle and Makhlouf38, Reference Nourmohammadifar and Peyghan51, Reference Sheng53]). Other interesting kinds of Hom–structures were investigated by many authors in [Reference Chtioui, Mabrouk and Makhlouf30, Reference Harrathi, Mabrouk, Ncib and Silvestrov36, Reference Makhlouf and Panaite43, Reference Yau55]. In particular, A. Makhlouf and S. D. Silvestrov later introduced in [Reference Makhlouf and Silvestrov44] the concept of Hom–Leibniz algebras, which is simultaneously a non-anti-commutative generalization of Hom–Lie algebras and Hom–analog of Leibniz algebras. More precisely, a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra is a triple $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ consisting of a $\mathbb{K}$ -vector space $\mathcal{L}$ , a bilinear map $[\cdot ,\cdot ]\,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ , and a $\mathbb{K}$ -linear map $\alpha \,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ fulfilling the left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz identity:

\begin{equation*}[\alpha (x),[y,z]]=[[x,y],\alpha (z)]+ [\alpha (y),[x,z]] \,\,\mbox{(resp.} \, [\alpha (x),[y,z]]=[[x,y],\alpha (z)]-[[x,z],\alpha (y)]),\end{equation*}

for all $x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}$ . As in the case of Leibniz algebras, we call $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if it is both a left and right Hom–Leibniz algebra. Recently, left and right Hom–Leibniz algebras were widely studied in many aspects (see, e.g., [Reference Bi, Chen and Zhang21, Reference Mukherjee and Saha49, Reference Wang and Ke54]).

In the theory of Hom–algebras, the study of quadratic-algebraic structures was initiated by S. Benayadi and A. Makhlouf in the context of Hom–Lie algebras in [Reference Benayadi and Makhlouf19]. Other Hom–algebras provided with these structures have been investigated (see, e.g., [Reference Ammar, Ayadi, Mabrouk, Makhlouf, SilesMolina, ElKaoutit, Louzari, BenYakoub and Benslimane5, Reference Chatbouri29, Reference Nan, Wang and Zhang50, Reference Saadaoui52]). The present paper aims to extend this study to (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebras. A (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is called quadratic if there exists a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}$ on $\mathcal{L}$ satisfying the following two conditions:

\begin{equation*}\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha (y)) \qquad \textrm {and}\qquad \mathfrak{B}([x,y],z)=\mathfrak{B}(x,[y,z])), \,\,\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L},\end{equation*}

where the second one is termed the invariance of the bilinear form. In particular, we prove in Theorem4.1 that a (left or right) regular Hom–Leibniz algebra that carries this structure is necessarily symmetric, which motivates our interest in characterizing symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras.

It is well known that the extension is an important way to find a larger algebra and there are many types of extensions, such as double extensions and Kac-Moody extensions, and so forth. In 1997, M. Bordemann introduced in [Reference Bordemann25] the notion of $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension of Lie algebras and proved that every nilpotent finite-dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field carrying a non-degenerate invariant symmetric bilinear form is a suitable $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension. The method of $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension has been generalized to many other algebras recently [Reference Bajo, Benayadi and Medina7, Reference Lin, Wang and Deng40, Reference Zhao, Chen and Ma56]. A. Medina and P. Revoy introduced in [Reference Medina and Revoy47] the notion of double extension, which arises from the combination of a central extension and a semi-direct product, aiming to provide an inductive description of quadratic Lie algebras. This concept was extended to quadratic Hom–Lie algebras in [Reference Benayadi and Makhlouf19] and subsequently attracted significant attention [Reference Baklouti and Benayadi8, Reference Benayadi, Kaygorodov and Mhamdi18, Reference Benayadi, Mhamdi and Omri20, Reference Mao, Hao and Chen45]). In the context of Lie superalgebras, the investigation of double extensions was started in [Reference Benamor and Benayadi11] and developed in [Reference Bajo, Benayadi and Bordemann6]. Besides, double extensions of restricted Lie superalgebras were introduced in [Reference Benayadi, Bouarroudj and Hajli15], where quadratic Lie superalgebras were referred to as NIS (short for “non-degenerate invariant symmetric”). In [Reference Benayadi and Bouarroudj13], the notion of double extension was extended to NIS-Lie superalgebras over a field of characteristic 2, where the presence of squaring necessitates new techniques. In the case where the bilinear form is symplectic, symplectic double extensions have been investigated for symplectic Lie algebras in [Reference Dardié and Medina32, Reference Dardié and Medina33, Reference Medina, Revoy, Dazord and Weinstein48], and for restricted quasi-Frobenius Lie superalgebras in [Reference Bouarroudj, Ehret and Maeda27]. Subsequently, the process of symplectic double extensions for symplectic Lie algebras with degenerate center was developed by Fischer (see [Reference Fischer34]), and the superization of this construction was explored in [Reference Bouarroudj and Ehret26]. Additionally, Baues and Cortés introduced in [Reference Baues and Cortés10] the symplectic oxidation process, which is closely related to double extensions. They also studied so-called Lagrangian extensions, which are $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extensions applied to Lie algebras equipped with flat and torsion-free connections. The superization of these two types of extensions was presented in [Reference Bouarroudj and Maeda28]. Thereafter, the method of Lagrangian extension was extended to Lie superalgebras over a field of characteristic 2 equipped with a flat torsion-free connection (see [Reference Benayadi, Bouarroudj and Ehret14]).

Recently, by applying the technique of double extension by the one-dimensional Lie algebra in quadratic Leibniz algebra, S. Benayadi and S. Hidri obtained in [Reference Benayadi and Hidri16] an inductive description of quadratic Leibniz algebras, thereby reducing the study of this class of Leibniz algebras to that of quadratic Lie algebras. In this paper, we will provide an expansion of the two notions of double extension and $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension for quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. More precisely, we summarize in Section 2 all definitions and conventions employed throughout this article. Section 3 is dedicated to characterizing symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras through central extensions. In particular, we establish the connection between these Hom–algebras and Hom–Poisson algebras. In Section 4, we introduce the notion of quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras and discuss some of their properties. Moreover, we construct several interesting examples of quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. Next, we present the main results related to extensions, aiming to study the structure of quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. Specifically, we establish in Section 5 the $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension of Hom–Leibniz algebras and demonstrate that this method preserves the nilpotency and solvability of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras (see Theorem 5.1). We also study the equivalence of $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extensions in Proposition 5.2 and provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for a nilpotent quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra to be isometric to a $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension in Theorem 5.2. We introduce in Section 6 the double extension of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras by the one-dimensional Lie algebra, which is fundamentally based on the generalized semi-direct product and the central extension of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras. In order to classify the double extensions of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras, we present a notion of isometry for these extensions and provide in Theorem 6.2 a necessary and sufficient condition for two double extensions to be isometric. It is noteworthy that the restriction of our notion in the case of quadratic Leibniz algebras is a refinement of the notion of isometry for double extensions of quadratic Leibniz algebras introduced in [Reference Benayadi and Hidri16]. Finally, in Section 7, we inductively describe quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras using the process of double extension, thereby reducing the study of these Hom–algebras to that of quadratic regular Hom–Lie algebras.

2. Definitions and preliminary results

In this section, we state some basic definitions and useful results concerning (left and right) Hom–Leibniz algebras.

We mean by a Hom–algebra a triple $(\mathscr{A},\mu ,\alpha )$ consisting of a vector space $\mathscr{A}$ , a bilinear map $\mu \,:\,\mathscr{A}\times \mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathscr{A}$ , and a linear homomorphism $\alpha \,:\,\mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathscr{A}$ . It is called Hom–associative if it satisfies $\mu (\alpha (x),\mu (y,z))=\mu (\mu (x,y),\alpha (z)),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathscr{A}$ (see [Reference Makhlouf and Silvestrov44]).

Definition 2.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},\cdot ,\alpha )$ be a non-associative Hom–algebra. Then for all $x \in \mathcal{L}$ , we define the endomorphisms $L_{x},R_{x}$ of $\mathcal{L}$ by $L_{x}(y)\,:\!=\,x\cdot y,\; R_{x}(y)\,:\!=\,y\cdot x,\; \forall y\in \mathcal{L}$ . The map $L_{x}$ (resp. $R_{x}$ ) is called the left (resp. right) multiplication by $x$ .

Definition 2.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a Hom–algebra.

  1. 1. $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is called a left Hom–Leibniz algebra if

    \begin{equation*}[\alpha (x),[y,z]]=[[x,y],\alpha (z)]+ [\alpha (y),[x,z]],\; \forall x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}.\end{equation*}
  2. 2. $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is called a right Hom–Leibniz algebra if

    \begin{equation*}[\alpha (x),[y,z]]=[[x,y],\alpha (z)]-[[x,z],\alpha (y)],\; \forall x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}.\end{equation*}
  3. 3. $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is called a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if it is both a left and a right Hom–Leibniz algebra.

Proposition 2.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a right Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if for all $x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}$ ,

(2.1) \begin{equation} [\alpha (x),[y,z]] =-[[y,z],\alpha (x)]. \end{equation}

Proof. Since $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a left Hom–Leibniz algebra, then for all $x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}$ ,

\begin{align*} [[y,z],\alpha (x)]-[[y,x],\alpha (z)]-[\alpha (y),[z,x]]&=[[y,z],\alpha (x)]-[[y,x],\alpha (z)]-[[y,z],\alpha (x)]-[\alpha (z),[y,x]]\\ &= [[y,x],\alpha (z)]+[\alpha (z),[y,x]]). \end{align*}

Examples 2.1.

  1. 1. Let $\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\,\lt X_{0},\cdots , X_{n},Y\gt$ be an $(n+2)$ -dimensional vector space. We define on $\mathcal{L}$ the following product

    \begin{equation*} [X_{0},X_{0}]=aY;\quad [X_{0},X_{n}]=bY;\quad [X_{0},X_{i}]=X_{i+1},\,\, \forall i\in \{1,\cdots , n-1\}, \end{equation*}

    and the linear map $\gamma$ given by

    \begin{equation*} \gamma (X_{0})=X_{0} +\lambda X_{n};\quad \gamma (Y)=Y;\quad \gamma (X_{i})=X_{i}, \,\, \forall i\in \{1,\cdots , n\},\end{equation*}
    where $a,b$ are arbitrary parameters and $\lambda \in \mathbb{K}\setminus \{0\}$ . Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is an $(n+2)$ -dimensional non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra.
  2. 2. Let $\mathcal{H}\,:\!=\, \lt X,Y,Z\gt$ be a three-dimensional vector space. We define on $\mathcal{H}$ the following product $[X,Z]=Y,\,[Z,Z]=X+aY$ , and the linear map $\alpha$ given by $\alpha (X)=X+aY,\, \alpha (Y)=Y,\, \alpha (Z)=aX+bY+Z,$ where $a$ and $b$ are arbitrary parameters. Then $\mathcal{H}$ is a right Hom–Leibniz algebra, but it is not a left Hom–Leibniz algebra because $[\alpha (Z),[Z,Z]]\neq [[Z,Z],\alpha (Z)]+[\alpha (Z),[Z,Z]].$

Let us remark that any Hom–Lie algebra is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Nevertheless, the class of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras is far more bigger than that of Hom–Lie algebras as we will see later.

Proposition 2.2. If $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a right (resp. left) Hom–Leibniz algebra, then $(\mathcal{L},*,\alpha )$ is a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra, where $x*y=[y,x]$ .

Definition 2.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ and $(\mathcal{L}',[\cdot ,\cdot ]',\alpha ')$ be two (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebras. A homomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras is a $\mathbb{K}-$ linear map $\Theta :(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )\rightarrow (\mathcal{L}',[\cdot ,\cdot ]',\alpha ')$ such that: $\Theta \circ \alpha =\alpha '\circ \Theta$ and $\Theta ([x,y])=[\Theta (x),\Theta (y)]',\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ .

Definition 2.4. A (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is called:

  1. (i) multiplicative if $\alpha ([x,y])=[\alpha (x),\alpha (y)]$ for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

  2. (ii) regular (resp. involutive) if $\alpha$ is an automorphism (resp. $\alpha ^{2}=$ id).

Definition 2.5. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra.

  1. 1. We denote by $[\mathcal{U},\mathcal{V}]$ the vector space spanned by the set $\{[u,v],u \in \mathcal{U},v \in \mathcal{V}\}$ , where $\mathcal{U}$ and $\mathcal{V}$ are two subspaces of $\mathcal{L}$ .

  2. 2. A subspace $\mathcal{U}\subset \mathcal{L}$ is said to be an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ if $[\mathcal{U},\mathcal{L}]\subseteq \mathcal{U},\,[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{U}] \subseteq \mathcal{U}$ and $\alpha (\mathcal{U})\subseteq \mathcal{U}$ .

In the following, we summarize some results regarding the representations of left and right multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Definition 2.6. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a non-associative Hom–algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $r,l\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V})$ be two linear maps and $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . If $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra, then we say that $(r,l)$ is a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ if for all $x,y \in \mathcal{L}$ ,

\begin{align*} l([x,y])\circ \beta =l(\alpha (x))&\,\circ l(y)-l(\alpha (y))\circ l(x);\quad r([x,y])\circ \beta =r(\alpha (y))\circ r(x)+l(\alpha (x))\circ r(y);\\ &\,r([x,y])\circ \beta =l(\alpha (x))\circ r(y)-r(\alpha (y))\circ l(x), \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \big (\textrm {resp.}\,l([x,y])\circ \beta =l(\alpha (x))&\,\circ l(y)+r(\alpha (y))\circ l(x);\quad l([x,y])\circ \beta =r(\alpha (y))\circ l(x)-l(\alpha (x))\circ r(y);\\ &\,r([x,y])\circ \beta =r(\alpha (y))\circ r(x)-r(\alpha (x))\circ r(y)\big ). \end{align*}

Example 2.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra. Consider the maps $L,R\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{L})$ defined by $L(x)\,:\!=\,L_{x}$ and $R(x)\,:\!=\,R_{x}$ for all $x\in \mathcal{L}$ . Therefore, $(R,L)$ is a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ with respect to $\alpha$ called the left (resp. right) adjoint representation of $\mathcal{L}$ .

Remark 2.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, $r,l\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V})$ be two linear maps and $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . Then we say that $(r,l)$ is a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ if it is a left (resp. right) representation of left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra (see. Definition 2.6) and the following conditions hold:

(2.2) \begin{equation} l(\alpha (x))\circ \beta =\beta \circ l(x)\,\,\,\textrm {and}\,\,r(\alpha (x))\circ \beta =\beta \circ r(x). \end{equation}

In particular, when considering $\mathcal{L}$ represents in itself, that is, the left (resp. right) representation $(R,L)$ defined in Example 2.1, the conditions of (2.2) remain valid with $l=L,\,r=R$ and $\beta =\alpha$ .

Proposition 2.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $r,l \, : \, \mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V})$ be two linear maps and $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . Then the vector space $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ = $\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ endowed with the product defined by $[x+u,y+v]=[x,y]+l(x)(v)+r(y)(u)$ for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,u,v\in \mathcal{V}$ and the twisted map $\gamma \,:\,\mathcal{L}_{1}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}_{1}$ given by $\gamma (x+u)=\alpha (x)+\beta (u)$ for all $x\in \mathcal{L},\,u\in \mathcal{V}$ is a left (resp. right) multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if $(r,l)$ is a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ .

Remark 2.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $(r,l)$ be a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ . Let us consider two linear maps $l^*,r^*\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V}^*)$ defined by:

\begin{equation*}l^*(x)(f)=f\circ r(x),\quad r^*(x)(f)=f\circ l(x),\,\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L},\,f\in \mathcal{V}^*,\end{equation*}

and $\widetilde {\beta }\in End(\mathcal{V}^*)$ given by $\widetilde {\beta }=\,^{t}\beta$ . In general, $(r^*,l^*)$ is not a left nor a right representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}^*$ with respect to $\widetilde {\beta }$ .

Proposition 2.4. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra and $(R,L)$ be the left (resp. right) adjoint representation of $\mathcal{L}$ . Let us consider the linear maps $L^*,R^*\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{L}^*)$ defined by:

\begin{equation*}L^*(x)(f)=f\circ R(x),\quad R^*(x)(f)=f\circ L(x),\,\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L}\,,f\in \mathcal{L}^*,\end{equation*}

and $\widetilde {\alpha }\in End(\mathcal{L}^*)$ given by $\widetilde {\alpha }=\,^{t}\alpha$ . Then $(R^*,L^*)$ is a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{L}^*$ with respect to $\widetilde {\alpha }$ if and only if

\begin{align*} &\,\alpha \circ R(\alpha (x))=R(x)\circ \alpha ;\,\,\alpha \circ L(\alpha (x))=L(x)\circ \alpha ;\quad \alpha \circ R([x,y])=R(y)\circ R(\alpha (x))-R(x)\circ R(\alpha (y));\\ &\,\alpha \circ L([x,y])=L(x)\circ L(\alpha (y))+L(y)\circ R(\alpha (x));\quad \,\,\, \alpha \circ L([x,y])=L(y)\circ R(\alpha (x))-R(x)\circ L(\alpha (y)), \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \,&\,\big (\textrm {resp.}\\ \,&\,\alpha \circ R(\alpha (x))=R(x)\circ \alpha ;\,\,\alpha \circ L(\alpha (x))=L(x)\circ \alpha ;\,\,\, \alpha \circ R([x,y])=R(y)\circ R(\alpha (x))+R(x)\circ L(\alpha (y));\\ &\,\alpha \circ R([x,y])=R(x)\circ L(\alpha (y))-L(y)\circ R(\alpha (x));\,\,\,\,\,\, \alpha \circ L([x,y])=L(x)\circ L(\alpha (y))-L(y)\circ L(\alpha (x))\big ). \end{align*}

Proof. Simple computation.

In the following, we introduce the representation of symmetric multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebras and give some related results.

Definition 2.7. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a symmetric multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $r,l \, : \, \mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V})$ be two linear maps and $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . Then we say that $(r,l)$ is a representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ if it is both a left and a right representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta$ . We denote by $Rep(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V})$ the set of all representations of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ .

Example 2.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a symmetric multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then

  1. 1. $(R,L)$ (see. Example 2.1 ) is a representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ with respect to $\alpha$ called the adjoint representation of $\mathcal{L}$ .

  2. 2. $(R^*,L^*)$ (see Proposition 2.4 ) is a representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{L}^*$ with respect to $\widetilde {\alpha }$ called the co-adjoint representation of $\mathcal{L}$ .

Remark 2.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a symmetric multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $r,l\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow End(\mathcal{V})$ be two linear maps and $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . Then the vector space $\mathcal{L}_{1}=\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ endowed with the product defined by $[x+u,y+v]=[x,y]+l(x)(v)+r(y)(u),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,u,v\in \mathcal{V}$ and the twisted map $\gamma \,:\,\mathcal{L}_{1}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}_{1}$ given by $\gamma (x+u)=\alpha (x)+\beta (u),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L},\,u\in \mathcal{V}$ is a symmetric multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if $(r,l)\in Rep(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V})$ with respect to $\beta$ .

3. Characterizations of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras

This section is devoted to the study of some characterizations of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras. First, we establish the connection between these Hom–algebras and Hom–Poisson algebras.

Definition 3.1. A Hom–Poisson algebra is a quadruple $(\mathcal{L},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\bullet ,\alpha )$ consisting of a linear space $\mathcal{L}$ , two bilinear maps $\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\bullet \,:\,\mathcal{L} \times \mathcal{L} \rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ and a linear space homomorphism $\alpha \,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ satisfying the following axioms:

  1. 1. $(\mathcal{L},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ is a Hom–Lie algebra,

  2. 2. $(\mathcal{L},\bullet ,\alpha )$ is a commutative Hom–associative algebra (not necessarily unital),

  3. 3. for all $x,y,z \in \mathcal{L}$ ,

    \begin{equation*}\{\alpha (x),y\bullet z\}=\{x,y\}\bullet \alpha (z)+\alpha (y)\bullet \{x,z\}\,\,\textrm {(Leibniz rule)}.\end{equation*}

Now, let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a Hom–algebra. On the underlying vector space of $\mathcal{L}$ , we define the two following new products:

\begin{equation*}\{x,y\}=\frac {1}{2}\big ([x,y]- [y,x]\big );\quad x\bullet y=\frac {1}{2}\big ([x,y]+ [y,x]\big ),\,\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}.\end{equation*}

Let us denote $\mathcal{L}^{-}\,:\!=\,(\mathcal{L},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ and $\mathcal{L}^{+}\,:\!=\,(\mathcal{L},\bullet ,\alpha )$ . We define the center of $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ by $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,:\!=\,\{x\in \mathcal{L},\,\{x,y\}=0,\,\forall y\in \mathcal{L}\}$ and the annihilator of $\mathcal{L}^{+}$ by $Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})\,:\!=\,\{x\in \mathcal{L},\,x\bullet y=0,\,\forall y\in \mathcal{L}\}$ . If $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra, a simple computation proves that $\mathcal{L}^{-}=(\mathcal{L},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ is a Hom–Lie algebra and $\mathcal{L}^{+}=(\mathcal{L},\bullet ,\alpha )$ is a Hom-associative algebra such that for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

  1. (i) $(x\bullet y)\bullet \alpha (z)=\alpha (x)\bullet (y\bullet z)=0$ (i.e., $(\mathcal{L},\bullet ,\alpha )$ is a 3-nilpotent Hom–associative algebra);

  2. (ii) $[x,y]\bullet \alpha (z)=\alpha (z)\bullet [x,y]=0$ and $\{\alpha (x),y\bullet z\}=0$ .

Moreover, if $\alpha$ is an automorphism of $\mathcal{L}$ , then we obtain

\begin{equation*}(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,\textrm {and}\,\{\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}\}\subseteq Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+}).\end{equation*}

Definition 3.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra. The Leibniz kernel of $\mathcal{L}$ is the sub-vector space $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\,:\!=\,$ span $\{[x,x],\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L}\}=$ span $\{[x,y]+[y,x],\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}\}=$ span $\{x\bullet x,\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L}\}=$ span $\{x\bullet y,\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}\}=(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}$ .

Let us remark that if $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra, then it is a Hom–Lie algebra if and only if $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}= \{0\}$ . Therefore, the quotient Hom–algebra $(\mathcal{L}/\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}},\widetilde {[\cdot ,\cdot ]},\widetilde {\alpha })$ is a Hom–Lie algebra, where the bracket $\widetilde {[\cdot ,\cdot ]}$ is the canonical bracket induced on the quotient and $\widetilde {\alpha }$ is the homomorphism naturally induced by $\alpha$ .

Proposition 3.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ such that $[i,\alpha (x)]=[\alpha (x),i]=0,\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L},\,i\in \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}$ (i.e., $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})$ and $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})$ ).

We have proved, in particular, this following lemma.

Lemma 3.1. If $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra, then

\begin{equation*}(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,\textrm {and}\,\{\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}\}\subseteq Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+}).\end{equation*}

In particular, $(\mathcal{L},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\bullet ,\alpha )$ is a regular Hom–Poisson algebra.

The following theorem is a generalization of Proposition 2.11 in [Reference Barreiro and Benayadi9].

Theorem 3.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a non-associative Hom–algebra such that $\alpha$ is an automorphism of $\mathcal{L}$ . Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ is a regular Hom–Lie algebra, $(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,\textrm {and}\,\{\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}\}\subseteq Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})$ .

Proof. Let us assume that $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ is a regular Hom–Lie algebra, $(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})$ and $\{\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}\}\subseteq Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})$ . Then for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , we have $[\alpha (x),[y,z]]=\{\alpha (x),\{y,z\}\},\,[[x,y],\alpha (z)]=\{\{x,y\},\alpha (z)\}$ and $[\alpha (y),[x,z]]=\{\alpha (y),\{x,z\}\}$ . Therefore, $[\alpha (x),[y,z]]-[[x,y],\alpha (z)]-[\alpha (y),[x,z]]=\{\alpha (x),\{y,z\}\}-\{\{x,y\},\alpha (z)\}-\{\alpha (y),\{x,z\}\}=0$ because $\{\cdot ,\cdot \}$ is a Hom–Lie structure on $\mathcal{L}$ . Now, $[\alpha (x),[y,z]]+[[y,z],\alpha (x)]=\{\alpha (x),\{y,z\}\}+\{\{y,z\},\alpha (x)\}=0$ . We conclude that $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra.

Examples 3.1.

  1. 1. Let $a_{1}\in \mathbb{K}$ . Consider the two-dimensional non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\,\lt e,f\gt ,[\cdot ,\cdot ],\theta )$ such that $[e,e]=f,\,\theta (e)=e+a_{1}f$ and $\theta (f)=f$ . So $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ is an abelian Hom–Lie algebra and the product $\bullet$ of $\mathcal{L}^{+}$ is defined by $e\bullet e=f$ . Observe that $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})=\mathcal{L}$ and $Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})\,:\!=\,\lt f\gt$ . Then $(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subset \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,\textrm {and}\,\{\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}\}\subset Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+}).$

  2. 2. Let $\lambda , \mu \in \mathbb{K}$ . Consider the non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\,\lt X,Y,Z,U,V,W\gt ,[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma )$ with the product defined by

    \begin{eqnarray*} &\,&[X,X]=W;\quad [X,Y]=\mu Y=-[Y,X];\quad [X,Z]=U=[Z,X];\\ &\,&[V,X]=\mu V=-[X,V];\quad [Y,V]=\mu U=-[V,Y], \end{eqnarray*}
    and the linear map given by $\Gamma (X)=X+\lambda Y,\, \Gamma (Y)=\mu Y, \,\Gamma (U)=U,\,\Gamma (V)=\lambda U+\mu V$ . So the product $\{\cdot ,\cdot \}$ on $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ is defined by $ \{X,Y\}=\mu Y,\,\{V,X\}=\mu V,\,\{Y,V\}=\mu U$ , and the product $\bullet$ on $\mathcal{L}^{+}$ is given by $X\bullet X=W,\,X\bullet Z=U$ . Remark that $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,:\!=\,\lt Z,U,W\gt$ and $Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+})\,:\!=\,\lt Y,U,V,W\gt$ . Finally, we conclude that $(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{3}=\{0\},\,\,(\mathcal{L}^{+})^{2}\subset \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}^{-})\,\textrm {and}\,(\mathcal{L}^{-})^{2}\subset Ann(\mathcal{L}^{+}).$

In the following, we are going to study the central extensions of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Definition 3.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $(r,l)$ be a left (resp. right) representation of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ in $\mathcal{V}$ with respect to $\beta \in End(\mathcal{V})$ . A bilinear map $\Omega \, : \, \mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ is called a 2-cocycle of left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra relative to $(r,l)$ if for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

\begin{align*} \Omega ([x,y],\alpha (z))-\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])&+\Omega (\alpha (y),[x,z])-l(\alpha (x))(\Omega (y,z))+l(\alpha (y))(\Omega (x,z))\\[4pt] &+r(\alpha (z))(\Omega (x,y))=0, \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align*}
\begin{align*} \big (\textrm {resp.}\,\, \Omega ([x&,y],\alpha (z))-\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])-\Omega ([x,z],\alpha (y))-l(\alpha (x))(\Omega (y,z))\\[4pt] &-r(\alpha (y))(\Omega (x,z))+r(\alpha (z))(\Omega (x,y))= 0\big ). \end{align*}

In both cases, $\Omega$ is called a Leibniz 2-cocycle of $\mathcal{L}$ relative to $(r,l)$ .

Now, let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}$ be a vector space, and $\Omega \,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ be a bilinear map. On the vector space $\mathscr{A}\,:\!=\,\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ , we define the following product:

\begin{equation*}(x+u)\star _{\Omega }(y+v)=[x,y]+\Omega (x,y),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,u,v\in \mathcal{V},\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\gamma (\bar {x})=\alpha (x)+\xi (\bar {x}),\,\forall \bar {x}=x+u\in \mathscr{A}$ , where $\xi \,:\,\mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ is a linear map.

  1. (i) $(\mathscr{A},\star _{\Omega },\gamma )$ is a left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , $\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])=\Omega ([x,y],\alpha (z))+\Omega (\alpha (y),[x,z])$ (resp. $\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])=\Omega ([x,y],\alpha (z))-\Omega ([x,z],\alpha (y))$ ), that is, $\Omega$ is a 2-cocycle of left (resp. right) Hom–Leibniz algebra $\mathcal{L}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ ;

  2. (ii) If $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra, then $(\mathscr{A},\star _{\Omega },\gamma )$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if $\Omega$ is a 2-cocycle of left (or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra $\mathcal{L}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ such that

    \begin{equation*}\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])=-\Omega ([y,z],\alpha (x)),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}.\end{equation*}
    In this case, we call $\Omega$ a Leibniz 2-cocycle of $\mathcal{L}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ and $(\mathscr{A},\star _{\Omega },\gamma )$ is termed a central extension of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of $\Omega$ . In the case where $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K},\,\Omega$ is called a scalar Leibniz 2-cocycle of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ . We denote by $Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V})$ the vector space of the Leibniz 2-cocycles of $\mathcal{L}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ .

Now consider $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\Omega \,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ a bilinear map, where $\mathcal{V}$ is a trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module. We have $\Omega =\Omega _{a}+\Omega _{s}$ , where $\Omega _{a}$ (resp. $\Omega _{s}$ ) is the skew-symmetric (resp. symmetric) part of $\Omega$ . More precisely, $\Omega _{a},\Omega _{s}\,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ are the bilinear maps defined, for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ , by

\begin{equation*}\Omega _{a}(x,y)=\frac {1}{2}\Big (\Omega (x,y)-\Omega (y,x)\Big ),\,\,\Omega _{s}(x,y)= \frac {1}{2}\Big (\Omega (x,y)+\Omega (y,x)\Big ).\end{equation*}

It follows that:

Proposition 3.2. $\Omega$ is a Leibniz 2-cocycle of a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ (i.e., $\Omega \in Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V})$ ) if and only if for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}\,:\,\Omega _{s}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=0,\,\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x), y \bullet z)=0$ and $\Omega _{a}\in Z^2_{\textrm {Lie}}(\mathcal{L}^{-},\mathcal{V}),$ where $Z^2_{\textrm {Lie}}(\mathcal{L}^{-},\mathcal{V})$ is the vector space of the 2-cocycles of Hom–Lie algebra $\mathcal{L}^{-}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}^{-}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ .

Proof. Assume that $\Omega \in Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V}))$ . Let $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , we have $\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])=-\Omega ([y,z],\alpha (x))$ if and only if $\Omega _{s}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=0$ . Consequently, $\Omega _{a}$ satisfies

\begin{equation*}\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=\Omega _{a}([x,y],\alpha (z))+\Omega _{a}(\alpha (y),[x,z]),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}.\end{equation*}

Let $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ . Since $\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z]+[z,y])=0$ and $\Omega _{s}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=0$ , then $\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),[y,z] +[z,y])=0$ . Consequently, the fact that $\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=\Omega _{a}([x,y],\alpha (z))+\Omega _{a}(\alpha (y),[x,z])$ implies that $\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),[y,z])+\Omega _{a}(\alpha (y),[z,x])+\Omega _{a}(\alpha (z),[x,y])=\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),\{y,z\})+ \Omega _{a}(\alpha (y),\{z,x\})+\Omega _{a}(\alpha (z),\{x,y\})=0$ .

Conversely, if we suppose that $\Omega _{a}\in Z^2_{\textrm {Lie}}(\mathcal{L}^{-},\mathcal{V})$ and $\Omega _{s}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=0,\,\Omega _{a}(\alpha (x),y\bullet z)=0,\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , a simple computation proves that $\Omega \in Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{L},\mathcal{V})$ .

Now, let us consider $(\mathcal{G},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ a Hom–Lie algebra and $\Omega ,\Omega '$ two Leibniz 2-cocycles of $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ on the trivial $\mathcal{G}\text{-}$ module $\mathcal{V}$ (i.e., $\Omega ,\Omega '\in Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V})$ ). Denote by $(\mathcal{L},\star _{\Omega },\gamma )$ (resp. $(\mathcal{L}',\star _{\Omega '},\gamma )$ ) the central extension of $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ by means of $\Omega$ (resp. $\Omega '$ ). We say that these two extensions are equivalent if there exists an isomorphism of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras $\Phi :\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}'$ such that $\Phi (x+u)=\Psi (x)+\mathfrak{q}(x)+\varphi (u),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{G},\,u\in \mathcal{V},$ where $\Psi :\mathcal{G}\rightarrow \mathcal{G},\,\mathfrak{q}:\mathcal{G}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ and $\varphi :\mathcal{V}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ are linear maps.

We say that these two extensions are strongly equivalent if $\Psi =id_{\mathcal{G}}$ and $\varphi =id_{\mathcal{V}}$ .

Proposition 3.3. $\mathcal{L}$ and $\mathcal{L}'$ are equivalent if and only if there exist an isomorphism $\Psi$ of the Hom–Lie algebra $(\mathcal{G},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ and two linear maps $\mathfrak{q}\,:\,\mathcal{G}\rightarrow \mathcal{V},\,\varphi \,:\,\mathcal{V}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ such that for all $\bar {x}=x+u\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

  1. 1. $\Omega '_{a}\big (\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\big )-\varphi \big (\Omega _{a}(x,y)\big )=\mathfrak{q}(\{x,y\})$ ;

  2. 2. $\Omega '_{s}\big (\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\big )=\varphi \big (\Omega _{s}(x,y)\big )$ ;

  3. 3. $\xi \Big (\Psi (x)+\mathfrak{q}(x)+\varphi (u)\Big )=\mathfrak{q}\big (\alpha (x)\big )+\varphi \big (\xi (\bar {x})\big )$ .

Proof. $\mathcal{L}$ and $\mathcal{L}'$ are equivalent if and only if there exists $\Phi \,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}'$ an isomorphism of symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras such that $\Phi (x+u)=\Psi (x)+\mathfrak{q}(x)+\varphi (u),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{G},\,u\in \mathcal{V}$ , where $\Psi \,:\,\mathcal{G}\rightarrow \mathcal{G}, \,\mathfrak{q}\,:\,\mathcal{G}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ and $\varphi \,:\,\mathcal{V}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}$ are linear maps. Consequently, $\mathcal{L}$ and $\mathcal{L}'$ are equivalent if and only if for all $\bar {x}=x+u,\bar {y}=y+v\in \mathcal{L}$ , we have $\Phi \big (\bar {x}\star _{\Omega }\bar {y}\big )=\Phi (\bar {x})\star _{\Omega '}\Phi (\bar {y})$ and $\gamma \circ \Phi (\bar {x})=\Phi \circ \gamma (\bar {x})$ . So the fact that $\Phi \big (\bar {x}\star _{\Omega }\bar {y}\big )=\Phi (\bar {x})\star _{\Omega '}\Phi (\bar {y})$ entails that $\Psi (\{x,y\})+\mathfrak{q}(\{x,y\})+\varphi \big (\Omega (x,y)\big )=\{\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\}+\Omega '\big (\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\big )$ and the fact that $\gamma \circ \Phi (\bar {x})=\Phi \circ \gamma (\bar {x})$ leads to $\alpha \circ \Psi (x)+\xi \Big (\Psi (x)+\mathfrak{q}(x)+\varphi (u)\Big )=\Psi \circ \alpha (x)+\mathfrak{q}\big (\alpha (x)\big )+\varphi \big (\xi (\bar {x})\big )$ . Consequently, $\mathcal{L}$ and $\mathcal{L}'$ are equivalent if and only if

  1. 1. $\Psi (\{x,y\})=\{\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\}$ and $\alpha \circ \Psi (x)=\Psi \circ \alpha (x)$ ;

  2. 2. $\Omega '_{a}\big (\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\big )-\varphi \big (\Omega _{a}(x,y)\big )=\mathfrak{q}(\{x,y\})$ ;

  3. 3. $\Omega '_{s}\big (\Psi (x),\Psi (y)\big )=\varphi \big (\Omega _{s}(x,y)\big )$ ;

  4. 4. $\xi \Big (\Psi (x)+\mathfrak{q}(x)+\varphi (u)\Big )=\mathfrak{q}\big (\alpha (x)\big )+\varphi \big (\xi (\bar {x})\big )$ .

Corollary 3.1. $\mathcal{L}$ and $\mathcal{L}'$ are strongly equivalent if and only if $\, \Omega _{a}-\Omega '_{a}\in B^2_{\textrm {Lie}}(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V}),\,\Omega _{s}=\Omega '_{s}$ and $\xi \circ \mathfrak{q}=\mathfrak{q}\circ \alpha$ , where $B^2_{\textrm {Lie}}(\mathcal{G},\mathcal{V})$ denotes the vector space of all 2-coboundaries of Hom–Lie algebra $(\mathcal{G},\{\cdot ,\cdot \},\alpha )$ on the trivial $\mathcal{G}-$ module $\mathcal{V}$ .

4. Quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras

This section focuses on the study of the structures of Hom–Leibniz algebras equipped with an invariant scalar product, referred to as quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. Additionally, we construct many interesting examples of these Hom–algebras.

Definition 4.1. [Reference Benayadi and Hidri16] A triple $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\mathfrak{B}$ ) is said to be a quadratic Leibniz algebra if $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ])$ is a left (or a right) Leibniz algebra endowed with a non-degenerate symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}$ which is also invariant, that is, $\mathfrak{B}([x,y],z) = \mathfrak{B}(x,[y,z]),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ . In this case, $\mathfrak{B}$ is called an invariant scalar product on $\mathcal{L}$ .

Definition 4.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (or a right) Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\mathfrak{B}\,:\,\mathcal{L} \times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ be an invariant symmetric non-degenerate bilinear form such that $\alpha$ is $\mathfrak{B}$ -symmetric, that is $\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha (y)),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ . The quadruple $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ is called a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra, and the bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}$ is termed an invariant scalar product on $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ .

If $\alpha$ is an involution (resp. invertible), the quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra is said to be involutive (resp. regular) quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra.

We recover the classical notion of quadratic Leibniz algebra when $\alpha$ is the identity map.

Definition 4.3. Two quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ and $(\mathcal{L}',[\cdot ,\cdot ]',\alpha ',\mathfrak{B}')$ are said to be isometric if there exists a Hom–Leibniz algebras isomorphism $\Theta$ from $\mathcal{L}$ onto $\mathcal{L}'$ satisfying $\mathfrak{B}'(\Theta (x),\Theta (y))=\mathfrak{B}(x,y),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}.$ In this case, $\Theta$ is called an isometry from $(\mathcal{L},\mathfrak{B})$ to $(\mathcal{L}',\mathfrak{B}')$ .

Examples 4.1.

  1. 1. Let $(\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\,\lt X,Y,Z,U\gt ,[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a four-dimensional non-Hom–Lie regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra equipped with the product defined by

    \begin{equation*} [X,X]=[X,Z]=[Z,X]=[Z,Z]=Y+U,\end{equation*}
    and the linear map given by
    \begin{eqnarray*} \alpha (X)=X+Y+U;\,\,\, \alpha (Y)=Y-U;\,\,\, \alpha (Z)=2Z+Y-X+\lambda U;\,\,\, \alpha (U)=2U,\,\,\lambda \in \mathbb{K}. \end{eqnarray*}
    Then $\mathcal{L}$ endowed with the symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}$ defined by $\mathfrak{B}(X,Y)=\mathfrak{B}(Z,U)=1$ is a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra.
  2. 2. Let $\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\, \lt X,Y,Z\gt$ be a three-dimensional vector space. We define on $\mathcal{L}$ the following product: $[X,X]=Y=[Z,Z],\,[Y,Y]= [X,Y]=[X,Z]=[Y,Z]=0$ , and the linear map $\alpha \, : \, \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ given by $\alpha (X)=X,\,\alpha (Z)=Y,\,\alpha (Y)=0$ . Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Furthermore, $\mathcal{L}$ cannot admit a quadratic structure.

Theorem 4.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a left (resp. right) regular Hom–Leibniz algebra. If $\mathcal{L}$ is quadratic, then $\mathcal{L}$ is symmetric.

Proof. Suppose that $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a left Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then for all $z\in \mathcal{L},\,i=[x,y]+[y,x]\in \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}},\,\,[i,\alpha (z)]=0$ . So for all $u\in \mathcal{L},\,\,0= \mathfrak{B}([[x,y]+[y,x],\alpha (z)],\alpha (u))=\mathfrak{B}([x,y]+[y,x],[\alpha (z),\alpha (u)])= \mathfrak{B}(\alpha ([x,y]+[y,x]),[z,u])=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),[\alpha (y),[z,u]]+[[z,u],\alpha (y)]),\,\forall x,y,z,u\in \mathcal{L}$ . The fact that $\mathfrak{B}$ is non-degenerate implies that $[\alpha (y),[z,u]]+[[z,u],\alpha (y)]=0,\,\forall y,z,u\in \mathcal{L}$ . Consequently, invoking Proposition 2.1, we infer that $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. By the same way, we prove the result for right Hom–Leibniz algebra.

Now, we give some properties of quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Definition 4.4. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\mathcal{U}$ be an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ . Then we say that $\mathcal{U}$ is non-degenerate if $\mathfrak{B}|_{\mathcal{U}\times \mathcal{U}}$ is non-degenerate.

Proposition 4.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\mathcal{U}$ be an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ . Then

  1. (a) $\mathcal{U}^{\bot }=\{x\in \mathcal{L},\,\mathfrak{B}(x,u)= 0,\,\forall u\in \mathcal{U}\}$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ and $[\mathcal{U},\mathcal{U}^{\bot }]=[\mathcal{U}^{\bot },\mathcal{U}]=\{0\}$ .

  2. (b) If $\mathcal{U}$ is non-degenerate, then $\mathcal{U}^{\bot }$ is also non-degenerate and $\mathcal{L}=\mathcal{U}\oplus \mathcal{U}^{\bot }$ .

Proof. ${(a)}\,$ Let $x\in \mathcal{U}^{\bot },\,y\in \mathcal{L},\,z\in \mathcal{U}$ . It is clear that $[\mathcal{U}^{\bot },\mathcal{L}]\subseteq \mathcal{U}^{\bot }$ and $[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{U}^{\bot }] \subseteq \mathcal{U}^{\bot }$ . Moreover, since $\alpha (\mathcal{U})\subseteq \mathcal{U}$ , then $\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),z)=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha (z))=0$ . It follows that $\mathcal{U}^{\bot }$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ . Further, $\mathfrak{B}([x,z],y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,[z,y])=0$ , since $\mathfrak{B}$ is non-degenerate, then $[x,z]=0$ . Thus, $[\mathcal{U}^{\bot },\mathcal{U}]={0}$ . The rest of the proof is clear.

Definition 4.5. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra.

  1. 1. The vector space $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})=\{x\in \mathcal{L}/\,[x,y]=[y,x]=0,\,\forall y\in \mathcal{L}\}$ is called the center of $\mathcal{L}$ .

  2. 2. The vector space $\mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}=\{x\in \mathcal{L}/\,[x,y]+[y,x]=0,\,\forall y\in \mathcal{L}\}$ is called the Leibniz radical of $\mathcal{L}$ .

Proposition 4.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic multiplicative Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then the center $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ .

Proof. We have $[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})]=[\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}),\mathcal{L}]=\{0\}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ . Further, let $x\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ and $y,\, z\in \mathcal{L}$ , then the invariance and the symmetry of $\mathfrak{B}$ lead to $\mathfrak{B}([\alpha (x),y],z)=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),[y,z])=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha ([y,z]))=\mathfrak{B}(x,[\alpha (y),\alpha (z)])=\mathfrak{B}([x,\alpha (y)],\alpha (z))=0$ . So, $[\alpha (x),y]=0$ . Similarly, we prove that $[y,\alpha (x)]=0$ .

Proposition 4.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then

  1. 1. $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq [\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}]\subseteq \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }$ ,

  2. 2. $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ ,

  3. 3. $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})=[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}]^{\bot }$ ,

  4. 4. $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}$ and $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ .

Proof. Let $x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,i\in \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}},\,u\in \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}$ and $z\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ .

  1. 1. It is clear that $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq [\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}]$ . Moreover, since $[\alpha (y),i]=0$ , then $\mathfrak{B}([x,y],\alpha (i))=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha ([x,y]),i)=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),[\alpha (y),i]) = 0$ . Consequently, $[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}]\subseteq \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }$ , because $\alpha (\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}})\subseteq \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}$ .

  2. 2. The assertion follows from Proposition 3.1 and Theorem 4.1.

  3. 3. The fact that $\mathfrak{B}(x,[y,z])=\mathfrak{B}([x,y],z)=0$ , for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , proves the result.

  4. 4. It is easy to see that $\mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}$ . So $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}$ and $\mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ . Moreover, if $i=[x,y]+[y,x]\in \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}$ and $u\in \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}$ , then $\mathfrak{B}([x,y]+[y,x],u) = \mathfrak{B}(x,[y,u]+[u,y])=0$ . Therefore, $\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }$ .

Remark 4.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $(\mathcal{W}=\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}^{\bot }/\mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\overline {\alpha })$ endowed with the bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{W}}\,:\,\mathcal{W}\times \mathcal{W}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ defined by $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{W}}(\overline {x},\overline {y})=\mathfrak{B}(x,y),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ is a quadratic Hom–Lie algebra, where $\overline {\alpha }\,:\,\mathcal{W}\rightarrow \mathcal{W}$ is the linear map induced by $\alpha$ .

In the following part of this section, we will introduce constructions that lead to various examples of quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. We will start by defining the concepts of nilpotency and solvability for Hom–Leibniz algebras, which are the same as those for Leibniz algebras.

Definition 4.6. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a (left or right) Hom–Leibniz algebra. For $n\geqslant 1$ , we define the following sequences of subspaces $\mathcal{L}$ :

\begin{align*} \mathcal{L}^{0}=\mathcal{L};\quad \mathcal{L}^{n}=[\mathcal{L}^{n-1},\mathcal{L}^{n-1}];\quad \mathcal{L}^{(0)}=\mathcal{L};\quad \mathcal{L}^{(n)}=[\mathcal{L},\mathcal{L}^{(n-1)}];\quad \mathcal{L}^{\langle 0\rangle }=\mathcal{L};\quad \mathcal{L}^{\langle n\rangle }=[\mathcal{L}^{\langle n-1\rangle },\mathcal{L}]. \\[-28pt] \end{align*}
  1. (i) If there exists $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\mathcal{L}^{n} = \{0\}$ , then we say that $\mathcal{L}$ is solvable. We call length of $\mathcal{L}$ , the smallest integer $k$ satisfying this property.

  2. (ii) If there exists $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\mathcal{L}^{(n)} = \{0\}$ , then we say that $\mathcal{L}$ is left nilpotent.

  3. (iii) If there exists $n\in \mathbb{N}$ such that $\mathcal{L}^{\langle n\rangle } = \{0\}$ , then we say that $\mathcal{L}$ is right nilpotent.

  4. (iv) $\mathcal{L}$ is said to be nilpotent, if there exists $p \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every product $[\ldots ,[x_{1},x_{2}],\ldots ,x_{p}]$ of $p$ elements of $\mathcal{L}$ , no matter how associated, is zero. We call the index of nilpotency of $\mathcal{L}$ , the smallest integer $p$ satisfying this property.

Remark 4.2. A Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is left (resp. right) nilpotent if and only if $L_{x}$ (resp. $R_{x}$ ) is nilpotent for any $x\in \mathcal{L}$ .

Proposition 4.4. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $\mathcal{L}$ is nilpotent if and only if $\mathcal{L}$ is left (resp. right) nilpotent.

Proof. The proof is the same as for Proposition 2.13 [Reference Benayadi and Hidri16].

Now, we will introduce the notions of Hom–LR algebras and semi-commutative Hom–algebras which will be useful to construct non-Hom–Lie nilpotent symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras with index of nilpotency $p\in \mathbb{N}$ .

Definition 4.7. Let $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\alpha )$ be a Hom-algebra. Then

  1. (a) If $(a\cdot b)\cdot \alpha (c) =(b\cdot a)\cdot \alpha (c)$ and $\alpha (c)\cdot (a\cdot b)=\alpha (c)\cdot (b\cdot a),\,\forall a,b,c\in \mathscr{A}$ , then we say that $\mathscr{A}$ is semi-commutative.

  2. (b) If $\alpha (a)\cdot (b\cdot c)=\alpha (b)\cdot (a\cdot c)$ and $(a\cdot b)\cdot \alpha (c)=(a\cdot c)\cdot \alpha (b),\,\forall a,b,c\in \mathscr{A}$ , then we say that $\mathscr{A}$ is a Hom–LR algebra.

Remark 4.3. If $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\alpha )$ is a Hom–associative algebra, then $\mathscr{A}$ is semi-commutative if and only if $\mathscr{A}$ is a Hom–LR algebra.

Proposition 4.5. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha _{\mathcal{L}})$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra and $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ be a Hom-associative Hom–LR algebra. Then the vector space $\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A}$ equipped with the product defined by

\begin{equation*}[x\otimes a,y\otimes b]=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}\otimes a\cdot b,\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,a,b\in \mathscr{A},\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\gamma \,:\,\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A}$ given by $\gamma (x\otimes a)=\alpha _{\mathcal{L}}(x)\otimes \beta (a),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L},\,a\in \mathscr{A}$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. In addition, if $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha _{\mathcal{L}})$ is a Hom–Lie algebra, then $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a Hom–Lie algebra if and only if $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ is a commutative Hom-algebra.

Proof. Since $\beta (b)\cdot (a\cdot c)=\beta (a)\cdot (b\cdot c)=(a\cdot b)\cdot \beta (c),\,\forall a,b,c\in \mathscr{A}$ , then for all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

\begin{align*} -[&\gamma (x\otimes a),[y\otimes b,z\otimes c]]+[[x\otimes a,y\otimes b],\gamma (z\otimes c)]+ [\gamma (y\otimes b),[x\otimes a,z\otimes c]]\\ &=-[\alpha (x),[y,z]]\otimes \beta (a)\cdot (b\cdot c)+[[x,y],\alpha (z)]\otimes (a\cdot b)\cdot \beta (c)+[\alpha (y),[x,z]]\otimes \beta (b)\cdot (a\cdot c)=0. \end{align*}

So $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a left Hom–Leibniz algebra. Moreover, since $(b\cdot c)\cdot \beta (a)=(b\cdot a)\cdot \beta (c)=(a\cdot b)\cdot \beta (c)=\beta (a)\cdot (b\cdot c)$ , then

\begin{align*} [\gamma (x\otimes a),[y\otimes b,z\otimes c]]&+[[y\otimes b,z\otimes c],\gamma (x\otimes a)]\\ &=[\alpha (x),[y,z]]\otimes \beta (a)\cdot (b\cdot c)+[[y,z],\alpha (x)]\otimes (b\cdot c)\cdot \beta (a)=0. \end{align*}

So $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Now, suppose that $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha _{\mathcal{L}})$ is a Hom–Lie algebra. If $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ is a commutative Hom–algebra, then $[x\otimes a,y\otimes b]+[y\otimes b,x\otimes a] =([x,y]+[y,x])\otimes a\cdot b= 0$ . So $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a Hom–Lie algebra. Conversely, if $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a Hom–Lie algebra, then $0=[x\otimes a,y\otimes b]+[y\otimes b,x\otimes a]=[x,y]\otimes (a\cdot b-b\cdot a)$ . Therefore, $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ is a commutative Hom–algebra.

Remark 4.4. Clearly, if $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ is nilpotent of index of nilpotency $p\in \mathbb{N}$ and $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha _{\mathcal{L}})$ is not nilpotent, then $(\mathcal{L}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ is a nilpotent symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra of index of nilpotency $p$ .

Proposition 4.6. Let $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{G}},\alpha _{\mathcal{G}})$ be a Hom–Lie algebra, $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\beta )$ be a Hom–associative non-commutative Hom–LR algebra, and $(\mathcal{G}\otimes \mathscr{A},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ be the non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra constructed in Proposition 4.5 . Then the vector space

\begin{equation*}T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})=\big(\mathcal{G}\otimes \mathscr{A}\big )\oplus \big (\mathcal{G}^{*}\otimes \mathscr{A}^{*}\big )\end{equation*}

endowed with the product defined for all $x,y\in \mathcal{G},\,a,b\in \mathscr{A},\,f,g\in \mathcal{G}^{*},\,f',g'\in \mathscr{A}^{*}$ by

\begin{equation*}[x\otimes a+f\otimes f',y\otimes b+g\otimes g']=\big ([x,y]_{\mathcal{G}}\otimes a\cdot b\big )+\big ((f\circ L_{y})\otimes (f'\circ L_{b})\big )+\big ((g\circ R_{x})\otimes (g'\circ R_{a})\big )\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\Gamma \,:\,T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})\rightarrow T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})$ given by

\begin{equation*}\Gamma (x\otimes a+f\otimes f')=\big (\alpha _{\mathcal{G}}(x)\otimes \beta (a)\big )+\big ((f\circ \alpha _{\mathcal{G}})\otimes (f'\circ \beta )\big ),\end{equation*}

is a non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Moreover, the bilinear form

\begin{eqnarray*} \mathfrak{B}_{T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})} \, : \, T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})\times T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A})&\rightarrow & \mathbb{K}\\ (x\otimes a+f\otimes f',y\otimes b+g\otimes g')&\longmapsto & \big (f(y)\otimes f'(b)\big )+\big (g(x)\otimes g'(a)\big ) \end{eqnarray*}

is an invariant scalar product on $(T(\mathcal{G},\mathscr{A}),[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma )$ .

The previous proposition demonstrates that we can construct non-Hom–Lie quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras from Hom–Lie algebras and non-commutative Hom–associative Hom–LR algebras. Thus, constructing these non-commutative Hom–associative Hom–LR algebras becomes crucial. A direct computation yields the following result.

Proposition 4.7. If $(\mathscr{A},\cdot ,\alpha _{\mathscr{A}})$ is a commutative Hom–associative algebra, $\mathbb{K}e$ is a one-dimensional vector space and $\Omega : \mathscr{A}\times \mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ is a bilinear form. Then the vector space $\overline {\mathscr{A}} = \mathscr{A}\oplus \mathbb{K}e$ equipped with the following product

\begin{equation*}(a+\lambda e)\bullet (b+\lambda ' e)=a\cdot b+\Omega (a,b)e,\,\forall a,b\in \mathscr{A},\,\lambda ,\lambda ' \in \mathbb{K},\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\tau \,:\,\overline {\mathscr{A}}\rightarrow \overline {\mathscr{A}}$ given by

\begin{equation*}\tau (a)=\alpha _{\mathscr{A}}(a)+f(a)e \, and\,\tau (e)=\mu e,\, \forall a\in \mathscr{A},\,where\, f\,:\,\mathscr{A}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}\, is\,a \,linear\, form,\,and\, \mu \in \mathbb{K},\end{equation*}

is a semi-commutative Hom–algebra. Furthermore,

  1. (i) $(\overline {\mathscr{A}},\bullet ,\tau )$ is Hom–associative if and only if $\Omega (a\cdot b,\alpha _{\mathscr{A}}(c)) = \Omega (\alpha _{\mathscr{A}}(a),b\cdot c),\,\forall a,b,c\in \mathscr{A}$ .

  2. (ii) $(\overline {\mathscr{A}},\bullet ,\tau )$ is commutative if and only if $\Omega (a,b)=\Omega (b,a),\,\forall a,b\in \mathscr{A}$ .

Now, let $\mathbb{K}^{n}$ be the vector space of dimension $n\in \mathbb{N}^{*}$ and $\{a_{1},\ldots ,a_{n}\}$ be a basis of $\mathbb{K}^{n}$ . We define on $\mathbb{K}^{n}$ the bilinear map “ $\cdot$ $\,:\,\mathbb{K}^{n}\times \mathbb{K}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}^{n}$ by

\begin{equation*} a_{i}\cdot a_{j}\,:\!=\,\left \{ \begin{array}{l} a_{i+j+1},\,\,\,\,\textrm {if}\,\,i + j + 1\leqslant n \\ 0,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\textrm {otherwise} \end{array}, \right .\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\alpha \, : \, \mathbb{K}^{n}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}^{n}$ given by $\alpha (a_{i})=\left \{ \begin{array}{l} a_{i+1},\,\,\,\,\textrm {if}\,\,i+1\leqslant n \\ 0,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\textrm {otherwise} \end{array}. \right .$

The Hom–algebra $(\mathbb{K}^{n},\cdot ,\alpha )$ will be denoted $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ .

Proposition 4.8. The Hom–algebra $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ is a commutative Hom–associative algebra. Further, if $n=2p$ (resp. $n=2p+1$ ), then $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ is nilpotent with index of nilpotency $p+1$ (resp. $p+2$ ), for $p\in \mathbb{N}$ .

Proof. It is straightforward to show that $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ is a commutative Hom–associative algebra. In addition, for any $k\geqslant 2,\,(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(k)}$ is spanned by the set $\{a_{2k-1},\ldots ,a_{n}\}$ . Therefore, if $n=2p$ , then $(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(p)}$ is spanned by the set $\{a_{n-1},a_{n}\}$ . So $(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(p+1)}=\{0\}$ . If $n=2p+1$ , then $(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(p+1)}$ is spanned by the set $\{a_{n}\}$ . Consequently, $(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(p+2)}=\{0\}$ .

Proposition 4.9. Let $n\geqslant 3,\,n\in \mathbb{N}$ . Consider the Hom–algebra $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ of dimension $n$ . Let $\mathbb{K}e$ be a one-dimensional vector space and define the bilinear form $\Omega \,:\,\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }\times \mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ by $\Omega (a_{i},a_{j})=0,\, \forall (i,j)\in \{1,\ldots ,n\}^{2}\setminus \{(1,2),(2,2)\}$ and $\Omega (a_{1},a_{2})=\eta _{1},\,\Omega (a_{2},a_{2})=\eta _{2}$ , for $\eta _{1},\eta _{2}\in \mathbb{K}^{*}$ such that $\eta _{1}\neq \eta _{2}$ . The vector space $\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }} = \mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }\oplus \mathbb{K}e$ equipped with the product defined by

\begin{equation*}(a+\lambda e)\bullet (b+\lambda ' e)=a\cdot b+\Omega (a,b)e,\,\forall a,b\in \mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha },\,\lambda ,\lambda ' \in \mathbb{K}\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\tau \,:\,\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}\rightarrow \overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}$ given by

\begin{equation*}\tau (a)=\alpha (a)+f(a)e \, and\,\tau (e)=\mu e,\, \forall a\in \mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha },\,where\, f\,:\,\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }\rightarrow \mathbb{K}\, is\,a \,linear\, form,\,and\, \mu \in \mathbb{K},\end{equation*}

is a nilpotent, non-commutative, Hom–associative, and Hom–LR algebra. Moreover, $\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}$ and $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ have the same index of nilpotency.

Proof. Since $(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)}$ is spanned by the set $\{e_{3},\ldots ,e_{n}\}$ , so $\Omega ((\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)},\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }) = \Omega (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha },(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)}) = \{0\}$ . Then $\Omega (a\cdot b,\alpha (c)) = \Omega (\alpha (a),b\cdot c),\,\forall a,b,c\in \mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ . Further, $\Omega (a_{1},a_{2}) =\eta _{1}\neq 0=\Omega (a_{2},a_{1})$ . So $\Omega$ is not symmetric. The Proposition 4.7 yields that $(\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }},\bullet ,\tau )$ is a non-commutative Hom–associative Hom–LR algebra. Clearly, $(\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }})^{(2)}\subseteq (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)}+\Omega (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha },\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })e$ . Moreover, since $\Omega (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha },(\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)})=\Omega ((\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(2)},\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }) = \{0\}$ , then $(\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }})^{(3)}\subseteq (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(3)}$ . Therefore, for all $k\geqslant 3,\,(\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }})^{(k)}\subseteq (\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha })^{(k)}$ , for $n\geqslant 3$ . So, according to Proposition 4.8, $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ is nilpotent with index of nilpotency grater or equal to 3. We conclude that $\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}$ is nilpotent and has the same index of nilpotency as $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ .

Construction of non-Hom–Lie, nilpotent, quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras

Now, we are prepared to construct non-Hom–Lie, nilpotent, quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebras. Let $p\geqslant 3$ . Consider the Hom–algebra $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ of dimension $n\in \{2p-3,2(p-1)\}$ . Let $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{G}},\alpha _{\mathcal{G}})$ be a perfect Hom–Lie algebra (i.e., $[\mathcal{G},\mathcal{G}]_{\mathcal{G}} = \mathcal{G})$ . Then the Hom–algebra $(\mathcal{G}\otimes \overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ constructed in Proposition 4.5 is a non-Hom–Lie, nilpotent, symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra with index of nilpotency $p$ . Next, applying the Proposition 4.6, we obtain a nilpotent quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra $(T(\mathcal{G},\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}),[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma ,\mathfrak{B}_{T(\mathcal{G},\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }})})$ with index of nilpotency $p$ .

5. $\mathrm{T}^{*}$ -extensions of Hom–Leibniz algebras

This section is devoted to the study of $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extensions of Hom–Leibniz algebras. Recall that the concept of $\mathrm{T}^{*}$ -extension was introduced by Martin Bordemann in [Reference Bordemann25].

Proposition 5.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\Omega \,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ be a bilinear map. Then the vector space $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})=\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{L}^{*}$ endowed with the product defined by

\begin{equation*}[x+f,y+g]=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\Omega (x,y)+f\circ L_{y}+g\circ R_{x},\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,f,g\in \mathcal{L}^{*},\end{equation*}

and the linear map $\gamma \,:\,T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})\rightarrow T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ given by

\begin{equation*}\gamma (x+f)=\alpha (x)+f\circ \alpha \end{equation*}

is a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if $\Omega$ is a Leibniz 2-cocycle of $\mathcal{L}$ relative to $(R^*,L^*)$ . Moreover, the bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}\,:\,T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})\times T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})\rightarrow \mathbb{K};\,(x+f,y+g)\mapsto f(y)+g(x)$ is symmetric and non-degenerate on $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ . The bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}$ is associative on $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ if and only if

(5.1) \begin{equation} \Omega (x,y)(z)=\Omega (y,z)(x),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}. \end{equation}

In addition, $\gamma$ is symmetric with respect to $\mathfrak{B}$ . In this case, the quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}),[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma ,\mathfrak{B})$ is termed the ${\mathrm{T}}^*$ -extension of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ by means of $\Omega$ .

We provide in the following some observations about ${\mathrm{T}}^*$ -extensions of nilpotent and solvable symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Theorem 5.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra.

  1. (1) If $\mathcal{L}$ is solvable of length $k$ , then the $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ is solvable of length $r$ , where $k\leqslant r\leqslant k+1$ .

  2. (2) If $\mathcal{L}$ is nilpotent of index of nilpotency $k$ , then the $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ is nilpotent of index of nilpotency $r$ , where $k\leqslant r\leqslant 2k-1$ . In particular, the index of nilpotency of the trivial $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension $T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})$ is $k$ .

Proof.

  1. (1) Suppose that $\mathcal{L}$ is solvable of length $k$ . Since $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{n}/\mathcal{L}^{*}\cong \mathcal{L}^{n}$ and $\mathcal{L}^{k}=\{0\}$ , we have $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{k}\subseteq \mathcal{L}^{*}$ , which implies that $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{k+1}=\{0\}$ . Therefore, $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ is solvable of length $k$ or $k+1$ .

  2. (2) Suppose that $\mathcal{L}$ is nilpotent of index of nilpotency $k$ . Since $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{(n)}/\mathcal{L}^{*}\cong \mathcal{L}^{(n)}$ and $\mathcal{L}^{(k)}=\{0\}$ , we have $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{(k)}\subseteq \mathcal{L}^{*}$ . Let $\xi \in (T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{(k)}\subseteq \mathcal{L}^{*},\,\,y\in \mathcal{L}$ and $x_{1}+f_{1},\ldots ,x_{k-1}+f_{k-1}\in T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ , we have

    \begin{eqnarray*} [\ldots ,[\xi ,x_{1}+f_{1}]_{T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})},\ldots ,x_{k-1}+f_{k-1}]_{T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})}(y)&=&\xi \circ L_{x_{1}}\circ \ldots \circ L_{x_{k-1}}(y)\\ &=& \xi ([x_{1},\ldots ,[x_{k-1},y]_{\mathcal{L}}\ldots ]_{\mathcal{L}})\,\,\,\,\in \xi (\mathcal{L}^{(k)})\\ &=& \{0\}. \end{eqnarray*}
    This proves that $(T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L}))^{\langle 2k-1\rangle }=\{0\}$ . Therefore, $T^{*}_{\Omega }(\mathcal{L})$ is nilpotent of index of nilpotency at least $k$ and at most $2k-1$ . Now consider the case of the trivial $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension $T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})$ of $\mathcal{L}$ . For $x_{i}+f_{i}\in T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})$ , where $1\leqslant i\leqslant k$ , we have
    \begin{align*} [x_{1}+&f_{1},[x_{2}+f_{2},\ldots ,[x_{k-1}+f_{k-1},x_{k}+f_{k}]_{T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})} \ldots ]_{T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})}]_{T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L})}\\ &=[x_{1},[x_{2},\ldots , [x_{k-1},x_{k}]_{\mathcal{L}}\ldots ]_{\mathcal{L}}]_{\mathcal{L}} +\sum _{j=1}^{k} f_{j}\circ L_{([x_{j+1},[x_{j+2},\ldots , [x_{k-1},x_{k}]_{\mathcal{L}}\ldots ]_{\mathcal{L}}]_{\mathcal{L}})}\circ R_{x_{j-1}}\circ \ldots \circ R_{x_{1}}\\ &=0. \end{align*}
    Therefore, $(T^{*}_{0}(\mathcal{L}))^{(k)}=\{0\}$ .

Examples 5.1.

  1. 1. Let $\mathcal{H}\,:\!=\,\lt X,Y,Z,X',Y',Z'\gt$ be a vector space of dimension 6. We define on $\mathcal{H}$ the following product

    \begin{eqnarray*} &\,&[X,X]=Z';\quad [X,Y]=bY=-[Y,X];\quad [X,Z]=X'=[Z,X];\\ &\,&[Y',X]=bY'=-[X,Y'];\quad [Y,Y']=bX'=-[Y',Y], \end{eqnarray*}
    and the linear map given by $\gamma (X)=X+aY,\, \gamma (Y)=bY,\,\gamma (X')=X',\,\gamma (Y')=aX'+bY'$ , where $a,b\in \mathbb{K}$ . It is clear that $\mathcal{H}$ is a non-nilpotent, non-Hom–Lie, and solvable symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra of length 2. Moreover, the symmetric bilinear form
    \begin{equation*}\mathfrak{B} \, : \, \mathcal{H}\times \mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}\,\textrm {defined by} \; \mathfrak{B}(X,X')=\mathfrak{B}(Y,Y')=\mathfrak{B}(Z,Z')=1\end{equation*}
    is an invariant scalar product on ( $\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ . Consequently, $(\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma ,\mathfrak{B})$ is a non-nilpotent, solvable quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra of length 2. Now consider the three-dimensional, non-nilpotent, and solvable Hom–Lie algebra $(\mathcal{G}\,:\!=\,\lt X,Y,Z\gt ,[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{G}},\theta )$ of length 2, endowed with the product defined by $[X,Y]_{\mathcal{G}}=-[Y,X]_{\mathcal{G}}=bY$ and the linear map given by $\theta (X)=X+aY,\,\theta (Y)=bY$ . Then the quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma ,\mathfrak{B})$ is the $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension of the Hom–Lie algebra $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{G}},\theta )$ by means of the 2-cocycle $\Omega$ defined by $\Omega (X,X)=Z',\,\Omega (X,Z)=X'=\Omega (Z,X)$ .
  2. 2. Let $p\geqslant 3$ . Let $(\mathcal{G},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{G}},\alpha _{\mathcal{G}})$ be a perfect Hom–Lie algebra (i.e., $[\mathcal{G},\mathcal{G}]_{\mathcal{G}} = \mathcal{G})$ and $\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }$ be the Hom–algebra of dimension $n\in \{2p-3,2(p-1)\}$ . Then the quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra $(T(\mathcal{G},\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }}),[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma ,\mathfrak{B}_{T(\mathcal{G},\overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }})})$ constructed in Proposition 4.6 is nilpotent with index of nilpotency $p$ . This Hom–algebra is the $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension of the non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\mathcal{G}\otimes \overline {\mathscr{A}_{n}^{\alpha }},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\gamma )$ constructed in Proposition 4.5 by means of $\Omega = 0$ .

In the following, we investigate the equivalence of $T^{*}$ -extensions of Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra over a field $\mathbb{K}$ and let $\Omega _{1},\Omega _{2}\,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ be two different Leibniz 2-cocycles of $\mathcal{L}$ relative to $(R^*,L^*)$ . The $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extensions $T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ and $T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ of $\mathcal{L}$ are said to be equivalent if there exists an isomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras $\Phi \, : \, T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})\rightarrow T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ such that $\Phi |_{\mathcal{L}^{*}}=id_{\mathcal{L}^{*}}$ and the induced map $\overline {{\Phi }}:T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})/\mathcal{L}^{*}\rightarrow T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})/\mathcal{L}^{*}$ is the identity, that is, $\Phi (x)-x\in \mathcal{L}^{*}$ . Moreover, if $\Phi$ is also an isometry, then $T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ and $T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ are said to be isometrically equivalent.

Proposition 5.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ be a symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra over a field $\mathbb{K}$ of characteristic not equal to 2, and $\Omega _{1},\,\Omega _{2}:\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ be two different Leibniz 2-cocycles of $\mathcal{L}$ relative to $(R^*,L^*)$ satisfying (5.1). Then we have

  1. (i) $T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ is equivalent to $T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ if and only if there is a linear map $\mathscr{P}:\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ such that $\mathscr{P}(x)\circ \alpha =\mathscr{P}(\alpha (x))$ and

    (5.2) \begin{equation} \Omega _{2}(x,y)-\Omega _{1}(x,y)=\mathscr{P}([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}})-\mathscr{P}(x)\circ L_{y}-\mathscr{P}(y)\circ R_{x},\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}. \end{equation}
    Furthermore, the symmetric part $\mathscr{P}_{s}$ of $\mathscr{P}$ defined by $\mathscr{P}_{s}(x)(y)\,:\!=\,\frac {1}{2}\Big (\mathscr{P}(x)(y)+\mathscr{P}(y)(x)\Big )$ , for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ , becomes a symmetric invariant bilinear form on $\mathcal{L}$ and $\alpha$ is $\mathscr{P}_{s}$ -symmetric.
  2. (ii) $T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ is isometrically equivalent to $T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ if and only if there is a linear map $\mathscr{P}:\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ such that $\mathscr{P}(x)\circ \alpha =\mathscr{P}(\alpha (x))$ , the identity (5.2) holds for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ and in addition the symmetric part $\mathscr{P}_{s}$ of $\mathscr{P}$ vanishes.

Proof. $(i)\,$ Let $\Phi \,:\,T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})\rightarrow T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ be an isomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras such that $\Phi |_{\mathcal{L}^{*}}=id_{\mathcal{L}^{*}}$ and $\Phi (x)=x+\mathscr{P}(x),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L}$ , where $\mathscr{P}\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ is a linear map. Then for all $x+f,y+g\in T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ , we have

\begin{align*} \Phi ([x+f,y+g]_{\Omega _{1}})&=\Phi ([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\Omega _{1}(x,y)+f\circ L_{y}+g\circ R_{x})\\ &=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\mathscr{P}([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}})+\Omega _{1}(x,y)+f\circ L_{y}+g\circ R_{x}. \end{align*}

In the other hand,

\begin{align*} [\Phi (x+f),\Phi (y+g)]_{\Omega _{2}}&=[x+\mathscr{P}(x)+f,y+\mathscr{P}(y)+g]_{\Omega _{2}}\\ &=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\Omega _{2}(x,y)+\mathscr{P}(x)\circ L_{y}+f\circ L_{y}+\mathscr{P}(y)\circ R_{x}+g\circ R_{x}. \end{align*}

Since $\Phi$ is an isomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras, then (5.2) holds.

Moreover by $\gamma \circ \Phi =\Phi \circ \gamma$ , we may obtain $\mathscr{P}(x)\circ \alpha =\mathscr{P}(\alpha (x)),\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L}$ .

Conversely, suppose that there exists a linear map $\mathscr{P}\,:\,\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}^{*}$ satisfying (5.2) and $\mathscr{P}(x)\circ \alpha =\mathscr{P}(\alpha (x)),\forall x\in \mathcal{L}$ , then we can define $\Phi :T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})\rightarrow T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ by $\Phi (x+f)=x+\mathscr{P}(x)+f$ . It is easy to prove that $\Phi$ is an isomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras. Thus, $T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ is equivalent to $T^{*}_{\Omega _{2}}(\mathcal{L})$ .

Now, consider the symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}\,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathbb{K};\,(x,y)\mapsto \mathscr{P}_{s}(x)(y)$ induced by $\mathscr{P}_{s}$ . For all $x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ , note that

\begin{align*} \Omega _{2}(x,y)(z)-\Omega _{1}(x,y)(z)&=\mathscr{P}([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}})(z)-\mathscr{P}(x)\circ L_{y}(z)-\mathscr{P}(y)\circ R_{x}(z)\\ &=\mathscr{P}([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}})(z)-\mathscr{P}(x)([y,z]_{\mathcal{L}})-\mathscr{P}(y)([z,x]_{\mathcal{L}}) \end{align*}

and

\begin{align*} \Omega _{2}(y,z)(x)-\Omega _{1}(y,z)(x)&=\mathscr{P}([y,z]_{\mathcal{L}})(x)-\mathscr{P}(y)\circ L_{z}(x)-\mathscr{P}(z)\circ R_{y}(x)\\ &=\mathscr{P}([y,z]_{\mathcal{L}})(x)-\mathscr{P}(y)([z,x]_{\mathcal{L}})-\mathscr{P}(z)([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}). \end{align*}

Since both $\Omega _{1}$ and $\Omega _{2}$ satisfy (5.1), then the right-hand sides of the above equations are equal. Hence,

\begin{equation*}\mathscr{P}([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}})(z)-\mathscr{P}(x)([y,z]_{\mathcal{L}})= \mathscr{P}([y,z]_{\mathcal{L}})(x)-\mathscr{P}(z)([x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}).\end{equation*}

Since ch $\mathbb{K}\neq 2$ , then $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}(x,[y,z])=\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}([x,y],z)$ , which proves the invariance of the symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}$ induced by $\mathscr{P}_{s}$ . Moreover,

\begin{align*} \mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}\big (\alpha (x),y\big )&=\frac {1}{2}\Big (\mathscr{P}(\alpha (x))(y)+\mathscr{P}(y)(\alpha (x))\Big )\\ &=\frac {1}{2}\Big (\mathscr{P}(x)(\alpha (y))+\mathscr{P}(\alpha (y))(x)\Big )=\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}\big (x,\alpha (y)\big ). \end{align*}

Consequently, $\alpha$ is $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{L}}$ -symmetric.

$(ii)$ Let the isomorphism $\Phi$ be defined as in (i). Then for all $x+f,y+g\in T^{*}_{\Omega _{1}}(\mathcal{L})$ , we have

\begin{align*} \mathfrak{B}(\Phi (x+f),\Phi (y+g))&=\mathfrak{B}(x+\mathscr{P}(x)+f,y+\mathscr{P}(y)+g)\\ &=\mathscr{P}(x)(y)+f(y)+\mathscr{P}(y)(x)+g(x)\\ &=2 \mathscr{P}_{s}(x)(y)+\mathfrak{B}(x+f,y+g). \end{align*}

Thus $\Phi$ is an isometry if and only if $\mathscr{P}_{s}=0$ .

The following theorem states the necessary and sufficient conditions under which a nilpotent quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra is a $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension, and its proof is similar to that of [[Reference Zhao, Chen and Ma56], Theorem 7.9].

Theorem 5.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a nilpotent quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra of finite dimension $n$ over a field $\mathbb{K}$ of characteristic not equal to 2. Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ is isometric to a $\mathrm{T}^*$ -extension $(\mathrm{T}^{*}_{\Omega }(H),[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathrm{T}^{*}_{\Omega }(H)},\gamma ,\mathfrak{Q}_{H})$ if and only if $n$ is even and $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ contains an isotropic ideal $\mathcal{I}$ (i.e., $\mathcal{I}\subset \mathcal{I}^{\bot }$ ) of dimension $\frac {n}{2}$ . In particular, $H\cong \mathcal{L}/\mathcal{I}$ , with $H^{*}$ satisfying $\alpha (H^{*})\subseteq H^{*}$ .

Let us emphasize that any isotropic $\frac {n}{2}$ -dimensional subspace $\mathcal{I}$ of $\mathcal{L}$ is an ideal of $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ if and only if it is abelian, that is, $\mathcal{I}^{2}=0$ .

6. Double extension of regular Hom–Leibniz algebras

In this section, we generalize the notion of double extension to quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras which involves two key steps: a central extension followed by a generalized semi-direct product. First, we will focus on introducing certain operators allowing to construct central extensions by a one-dimensional Lie algebra, as outlined in the proposition below.

Definition 6.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra and $f$ be an endomorphism of $\mathcal{L}$ . Then the endomorphism $f^{*}$ of $\mathcal{L}$ defined by $\mathfrak{B}(f(x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,f^{*}(y)),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ is called the adjoint of $f$ with respect to $\mathfrak{B}$ .

Proposition 6.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\Omega :\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ be a bilinear map. Then there exists an endomorphism $\delta$ of $\mathcal{L}$ such that $\Omega (x,y)=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (x),y),\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ . The map $\Omega$ is a scalar Leibniz 2-cocycle of $\mathcal{L}$ if and only if for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ ,

\begin{equation*} {(i)}\,\alpha \circ \delta ([x,y])=[\delta \circ \alpha (x),y]-[\delta \circ \alpha (y),x]\quad and\quad {(ii)}\,(\delta +\delta ^{*})\circ \alpha \subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}).\end{equation*}

Proof.

  1. (i) $\Omega ([x,y],\alpha (z))+\Omega (\alpha (y),[x,z])-\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha \circ \delta ([x,y])+[\delta \circ \alpha (y),x]-[\delta \circ \alpha (x),y],z)$ .

  2. (ii) $\Omega (\alpha (x),[y,z])+\Omega ([y,z],\alpha (x))=\mathfrak{B}(y,[z,(\delta +\delta ^{*})\circ \alpha (x)]),\,\forall x,y,z\in \mathcal{L}$ .

We will define, in the proposition below, another type of extension of regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ be a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra and $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K}d$ be the one-dimensional Lie algebra. Let $\delta _{1},\delta _{2}$ be two endomorphisms of $\mathcal{L},\,a_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}),\,a_{1}\in \mathcal{L}$ and $\lambda \in \mathbb{K}$ .

Consider the vector space $\widetilde {\mathcal{L}}=\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ on which we define the following product

(6.1) \begin{equation} \begin{split} \big (x+\eta _{1} d\big )\ast \big (y+\eta _{2} d\big )=[x,y]+\eta _{1} \delta _{1}(y)+\eta _{2}\delta _{2}(x)+\eta _{1}\eta _{2} a_{0},\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,\eta _{1},\eta _{2}\in \mathbb{K}, \end{split} \end{equation}

and the linear map $\beta \,:\,\widetilde {\mathcal{L}}\rightarrow \widetilde {\mathcal{L}}$ by $\beta |_{\mathcal{L}}=\alpha$ and $\beta (d)=a_{1}+\lambda d$ .

Proposition 6.2. The triple $(\widetilde {\mathcal{L}},\ast ,\beta )$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra if and only if

(6.2) \begin{eqnarray} \begin{cases} \,{(p_{1})}\, (\delta _{1}+\delta _{2})(\mathcal{L})\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L});\,\delta _{1}(\mathcal{L})\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}};\,\delta _{2}(\mathcal{L})\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{L}};\,(\delta _{1},\delta _{2})\in Rep(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{L})\,\,\textrm {with respect to}\,\,\alpha ;\\[4.5pt] \,{(p_{2})}\, [a_{1},[x,y]]+\lambda \delta _{1}([x,y])=[\delta _{1}(x),\alpha (y)]+ [\alpha (x),\delta _{1}(y)];\quad \delta _{1}(a_{0})=\delta _{2}(a_{0})=0;\\[4.5pt] \,{(p_{3})}\, \alpha \circ \delta _{1}(x)=[a_{1},\alpha (x)]+\lambda \delta _{1}\circ \alpha (x);\quad \alpha \circ \delta _{2}(x)=[\alpha (x),a_{1}]+\lambda \delta _{2}\circ \alpha (x);\\[4.5pt] \,{(p_{4})}\, \alpha (a_{0})=[a_{1},a_{1}]+\lambda ^{2} a_{0}+\lambda (\delta _{1}+\delta _{2})(a_{1}), \end{cases} \end{eqnarray}

for all $x,y\in \mathcal{L}$ . In this case, $(\delta _{1},\delta _{2},a_{0},a_{1})$ is called “an admissible quadruple” and the regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $\widetilde {\mathcal{L}}$ is termed the generalized semi-direct product of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of $(\delta _{1},\delta _{2},a_{0},a_{1})$ .

Proof. By a simple computation, we can easily check that $(\widetilde {\mathcal{L}},\ast ,\beta )$ is a left Hom–Leibniz algebra verifying

\begin{equation*}\beta (\mathscr{X})\ast (\mathscr{Y}\ast \mathscr{Z})+ (\mathscr{Y}\ast \mathscr{Z})\ast \beta (\mathscr{X})=0\,\,\mbox{ for all}\,\mathscr{X},\mathscr{Y},\mathscr{Z}\in \widetilde {\mathcal{L}},\end{equation*}

if and only if the conditions $(p_{1})$ and $(p_{2})$ of (6.2) are satisfied. Moreover, $\beta (\mathscr{X}\ast \mathscr{Y})=\beta (\mathscr{X})\ast \beta (\mathscr{Y})$ if and only if the conditions $(p_{3})$ and $(p_{4})$ of (6.2) are verified.

Definition 6.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra, $(\delta ,a_{0})\in End(\mathcal{L})\times \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ and $a_{1}\in \mathcal{L}$ . A triple $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ is called special admissible if $(\delta ,\delta ^{*},a_{0},a_{1})$ is an admissible quadruple and $\mathfrak{B}(a_{0},a_{0})=0$ .

We are now ready to introduce the notion of double extension of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Theorem 6.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra, $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K}d$ be the one-dimensional Lie algebra, and $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ be a special admissible triple. Set $\lambda ,\lambda _{0},\lambda _{1}\in \mathbb{K}$ . If the following conditions hold

(6.3) \begin{eqnarray} \begin{cases} \,[\delta (a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}}=[\alpha ,\delta ^2]_{\mathcal{L}};\,\,[\delta (a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}}= -[\delta ^{*}(a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}};\\[4.5pt] \,\delta ^{*}(a_{1})+\lambda a_{0}=\alpha \circ \delta (a_{1})+\lambda \alpha (a_{0});\\[4.5pt] \,\lambda \lambda _{0}+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},a_{0})=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{1}),a_{1})+\lambda ^{2} \lambda _{0}+2 \mathfrak{B}(\lambda a_{1},a_{0}), \end{cases} \end{eqnarray}

then the vector space $\overline {\mathcal{L}}=\mathcal{V}^{*}\oplus \mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ provided with the following product

(6.4) \begin{eqnarray} \begin{split} & [d,d]= a_{0}+\lambda _{0} d^{*};\qquad \qquad \quad \,\,[x,y]=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta (x),y)d^{*};\\ & [d,x]=\delta (x)+\mathfrak{B}(x,a_{0})d^{*};\qquad \,\, [x,d]=\delta ^{*}(x)+\mathfrak{B}(x,a_{0})d^{*}, \end{split} \end{eqnarray}

and the twisted map $\Gamma \,:\,\overline {\mathcal{L}} \rightarrow \overline {\mathcal{L}}$ defined by

(6.5) \begin{equation} \Gamma (x)=\alpha (x)+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},x)d^{*};\quad \Gamma (d)=\lambda d+a_{1}+\lambda _{1}d^{*};\quad \Gamma (d^{*})=\lambda d^{*}\,\,{for\,all\,} x\in \mathcal{L}, \end{equation}

is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra. Moreover, the bilinear form $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}\,:\,\overline {\mathcal{L}}\times \overline {\mathcal{L}}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ defined by $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}|_{\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}}=\mathfrak{B},\,\overline {\mathfrak{B}}(d,d^{*})=1$ is an invariant scalar product on $(\overline {\mathcal{L}},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma )$ .

The quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\overline {\mathcal{L}},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma ,\overline {\mathfrak{B}})$ is termed the double extension of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1}).$

Proof. The Proposition 6.1 entails that the map $\Phi \,:\,\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathcal{V}^{*};(x,y)\longmapsto \Phi (x,y)=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (x),y)d^{*}$ is a Leibniz 2-cocycle of $\mathcal{L}$ on the trivial $\mathcal{L}-$ module $\mathcal{V}^{*}$ . Then $\mathcal{L}_{1}=\mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}^{*}$ endowed with the product defined by

\begin{equation*}(x+f)\star _{\Omega }(y+g)=[x,y]_{\mathcal{L}}+\Phi (x,y)\,\,\textrm {for all} \, x,y\in \mathcal{L},\,f,g\in \mathcal{V}^{*},\end{equation*}

and the twisted map $\gamma \,:\,\mathcal{L}_{1}\rightarrow \mathcal{L}_{1}$ given by $\gamma (x)=\alpha (x)+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},x)d^{*}$ and $\gamma (d^{*})=\lambda d^{*}$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra, central extension of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathcal{V^{*}}$ by means of $\Phi$ .

Now, we define two endomorphisms $\delta _{1}$ and $\delta _{2}$ of $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ as follows:

\begin{equation*}\delta _{1}(x+\mu d^{*})=\delta (x)+\mathfrak{B}(x,a_{0})d^{*},\,\,\,\,\,\,\delta _{2}(x+\mu d^{*})=\delta ^{*}(x)+\mathfrak{B}(x,a_{0})d^{*},\,\forall x\in \mathcal{L},\,\mu \in \mathbb{K}.\end{equation*}

Let us consider $b_{0}=a_{0}+\lambda _{0}d^{*}$ and $b_{1}=a_{1}+\lambda _{1}d^{*}$ two elements of $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ , where $\lambda _{0},\lambda _{1}$ are two fixed scalars in $\mathbb{K}$ . So $b_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L}_{1})$ because $a_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ and $\delta (a_{0})=\delta ^{*}(a_{0})=0$ .

Since the conditions (6.3) are satisfied, then a simple computation proves that $(\delta _{1},\delta _{2},b_{0},b_{1})$ is an admissible quadruple of $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ . Consequently, we can consider the regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $\overline {\mathcal{L}}=\mathcal{L}_{1}\oplus \mathcal{V}=\mathcal{V}^{*}\oplus \mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ , generalized semi-direct product of $\mathcal{L}_{1}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of $(\delta _{1},\delta _{2},b_{0},b_{1})$ , provided with the product defined by (6.4) and the linear map given by (6.5). Furthermore, it is straightforward to demonstrate that the symmetric bilinear form $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}:\overline {\mathcal{L}}\times \overline {\mathcal{L}}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ given by $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}|_{\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}}=\mathfrak{B},\,\overline {\mathfrak{B}}(d,d^{*})=1$ is an invariant scalar product on $\overline {\mathcal{L}}$ .

Examples 6.1.

  1. (1) Consider the $\{0\}$ Lie algebra. Let $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K}d$ be the one-dimensional Lie algebra. Then the Leibniz double extension of $\{0\}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ is the two-dimensional non-Hom–Lie symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $\mathcal{L}=\mathcal{V}^{*}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ with the product defined by: $[d,d]=\lambda _{0} d^{*}$ and the linear map $\Gamma \,:\,\mathcal{L} \rightarrow \mathcal{L}$ given by: $\Gamma (d)=d+\lambda _{1}d^{*},\,\Gamma (d^{*})=d^{*}$ , where $\lambda _{0},\lambda _{1}\in \mathbb{K}$ . Moreover, the symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}:\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ defined by $\mathfrak{B}(d,d^{*})=1$ is an invariant scalar product on $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma )$ .

  2. (2) Let $(\mathcal{L}\,:\!=\,\lt X,Y\gt ,[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ be a two-dimensional non-Hom–Lie regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra with the product defined by $[X,X]_{\mathcal{L}}=Y$ and the linear map given by $\alpha (X)=X+Y,\,\alpha (Y)=Y$ . Then the symmetric bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}:\mathcal{L}\times \mathcal{L}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ defined by $\mathfrak{B}(X,Y)=1, \,\mathfrak{B}(X,X)=\mathfrak{B}(Y,Y)=0$ is an invariant scalar product on $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}},\alpha )$ . Let us consider $a_{0}=Y$ and $a_{1}=Y-X$ two elements of $\mathcal{L}$ and we fix a scalars $\lambda =2,\,\lambda _{0}=1$ and $\lambda _{1}\in \mathbb{K}$ . It is clear that $a_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ and $\mathfrak{B}(a_{0},a_{0})=0$ . Now, we define the endomorphism $\delta$ of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\delta (X)=Y$ and $\delta (Y)=0$ . Thus, $\delta ^{*}=\delta$ and $\delta (a_{0})=0$ . Let $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K}d$ be a vector space of dimension one. Since $\delta ^{2}=0$ , then $(\delta ,\delta )\in Rep(\mathcal{V},\mathcal{L})$ with respect to $\alpha$ . Using straightforward calculations, one can easily check that $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ is a special admissible of $\mathcal{L}$ . Furthermore, the following conditions hold:

    \begin{eqnarray*} &\,&[\delta (a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}}=[\alpha ,\delta ^2]_{\mathcal{L}};\,\,[\delta (a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{L}}=0\\ &\,&\delta (a_{1})+\lambda a_{0}=\alpha \circ \delta (a_{1})+\lambda \alpha (a_{0});\\ &\,&\lambda \lambda _{0}+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},a_{0})=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{1}),a_{1})+\lambda ^{2} \lambda _{0}+2 \mathfrak{B}(\lambda a_{1},a_{0}). \end{eqnarray*}
    Consequently, we can consider the regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra $\overline {\mathcal{L}}=\mathcal{V}^{*}\oplus \mathcal{L}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ , double extension of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ , equipped with the structures defined as follows:
    \begin{equation*}[d,d]=[X,X]=[d,X]=[X,d]=Y+d^{*},\end{equation*}
    and all the others brackets being nul. Further, the twisted map $\Gamma :\overline {\mathcal{L}} \rightarrow \overline {\mathcal{L}}$ is defined by
    \begin{eqnarray*} &\,& \Gamma (X)=X+Y+d^{*};\quad \Gamma (Y)=Y-d^{*};\\ &\,& \Gamma (d)=2d+Y-X+\lambda _{1}d^{*};\quad \Gamma (d^{*})=2d^{*}. \end{eqnarray*}
    In addition, the symmetric bilinear form $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}$ on $\overline {\mathcal{L}}$ given by $\overline {\mathfrak{B}}(X,Y)=\overline {\mathfrak{B}}(d,d^{*})=1$ defines a quadratic structure on $(\overline {\mathcal{L}},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma )$ . Therefore, the resulting regular quadratic Hom–Leibniz algebra $(\overline {\mathcal{L}},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\Gamma ,\overline {\mathfrak{B}})$ is four-dimensional and nilpotent with index of nilpotency 2.

Since the double extension depends on the choice of an admissible quadruple, then we might raise the following question: Under which conditions two admissible quadruples give isometric double extensions? In order to give an answer to this question, we introduce the following notion of isometry.

Definition 6.3. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra, and $\mathbb{K}d$ and $\mathbb{K}d'$ be two one-dimensional Lie algebras. Let us consider $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ and $(\delta ',a'_{0},a'_{1})$ two special admissibles of $\mathcal{L}$ and fix $\lambda ,\lambda _{0},\lambda _{1},\lambda ',\lambda '_{0},\lambda '_{1}\in \mathbb{K}$ . Denote by $(\mathcal{L}_{d},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{d},\Gamma _{d},\mathfrak{B}_{d})$ (resp. ( $\mathcal{L}_{d'},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{d'},\Gamma _{d'},\mathfrak{B}_{d'})$ ) the double extension of $\mathcal{L}$ by $\mathbb{K}d$ (resp. $\mathbb{K}d'$ ) by means of $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ (resp. $(\delta ',a'_{0},a'_{1})$ ). Then $(\mathcal{L}_{d},\mathfrak{B}_{d})$ and $(\mathcal{L}_{d'},\mathfrak{B}_{d'})$ are said to be isometric if there exists $\Theta$ an isometry between them fulfilling:

\begin{equation*} \Theta (x)=\mathfrak{p}(x)-\eta \mathfrak{B}(z_{0},\mathfrak{p}(x))d'^{*};\quad \Theta (d)=\eta ^{-1}d'+z_{0}-\frac {\eta }{2}\mathfrak{B}(z_{0},z_{0})d'^{*};\quad \Theta (d^{*})=\eta d'^{*}, \end{equation*}

where $\mathfrak{p}$ is an isometry on $(\mathcal{L},\mathfrak{B}),\,0\neq \eta \in \mathbb{K}$ and $z_{0}\in \mathcal{L}$ .

Remark 6.1. The notion of isometry of double extensions of quadratic Leibniz algebras introduced in [16] is a particular case of our definition restricted to the quadratic Leibniz algebras.

Theorem 6.2. The double extensions $(\mathcal{L}_{d},\mathfrak{B}_{d})$ and $(\mathcal{L}_{d'},\mathfrak{B}_{d'})$ are isometric if and only if there exist an isometry $\mathfrak{p}$ on $(\mathcal{L},\mathfrak{B}),\,z_{0}\in \mathcal{L}$ and $0\neq \eta \in \mathbb{K}$ such that

(6.6) \begin{align} & \mathfrak{p}\circ \delta \circ \mathfrak{p}^{-1}-\eta ^{-1} \delta '=L_{z_{0}}; \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align}
(6.7) \begin{align} & \mathfrak{p}(a_{0})-\eta ^{-2}a'_{0}=\eta ^{-1} (\delta '+\delta '^{*})(z_{0})+[z_{0},z_{0}]; \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align}
(6.8) \begin{align} & \eta ^{3} \lambda _{0}-\lambda '_{0}=\mathfrak{B}\big (z_{0},3\eta a_{0}'+3\eta ^{2} \delta '(z_{0})+\eta ^{3}[z_{0},z_{0}]\big ); \\[-30pt] \nonumber \end{align}
(6.9) \begin{align} & \mathfrak{p}\circ \alpha =\alpha \circ \mathfrak{p};\,\,\lambda =\lambda '; \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align}
(6.10) \begin{align} & \mathfrak{p}(a_{1})-\eta ^{-1}a'_{1}=\alpha (z_{0})-\lambda z_{0}; \\[-28pt] \nonumber \end{align}
(6.11) \begin{align} & \eta ^{2}\lambda _{1}-\lambda '_{1}=\mathfrak{B}\big (z_{0},\eta ^{2}\mathfrak{p}(a_{1})+\eta a'_{1}\big ). \\[6pt] \nonumber \end{align}

Proof. The proof is a straightforward but lengthy computation so we omit it.

7. Inductive description of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras

Using extensions developed in the preceding section, we will provide an inductive description of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras.

Theorem 7.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a non-Hom–Lie quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ is isomorphic to a double extension of a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra by the one-dimensional Lie algebra.

Proof. Since $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ is not a Hom–Lie algebra. Then $\{0\}\neq \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\subseteq \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ follows that there exist $e\in \mathcal{I}_{\mathcal{L}}\setminus \{0\}$ and $\lambda \in \mathbb{K}$ such that $\alpha (e)=\lambda e$ . Denote by $\mathcal{J}=\mathbb{K}e$ and $\mathcal{J}^{\bot }$ the orthogonal of $\mathcal{J}$ with respect to $\mathfrak{B}$ , then $\mathcal{J}\subseteq \mathcal{J}^{\bot }$ . Since $\mathfrak{B}$ is non-degenerate, then there exists $d\in \mathcal{L}\setminus \{0\}$ such that $\mathfrak{B}(e,d)=1$ and $\mathfrak{B}(d,d)=0$ . Let $\mathcal{V}=\mathbb{K}d$ and $\mathcal{H}=(\mathcal{J}\oplus \mathcal{V})^{\bot }$ , then $\mathcal{L}=\mathcal{J}\oplus \mathcal{H}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ and $\mathcal{J}^{\bot }=\mathcal{J}\oplus \mathcal{H}$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ with $\mathfrak{B}(e,e)=\mathfrak{B}(d,d)=0$ , $\mathfrak{B}(e,d)=1$ , and $\mathfrak{B}(\mathcal{H},e)=\mathfrak{B}(\mathcal{H},d)=\{0\}$ .

There exist $\lambda _{0},\gamma _{0}\in \mathbb{K},\,a_{0}\in \mathcal{H}$ such that $[d,d]=\lambda _{0} e+a_{0}+\gamma _{0} d$ and there exist $\lambda _{1},\gamma _{1}\in \mathbb{K},\,a_{1}\in \mathcal{H}$ such that $\alpha (d)=\lambda _{1}e+a_{1}+\gamma _{1} d.$ The fact that $\mathcal{J}^{\bot }$ is an ideal of $\mathcal{L}$ implies that

  1. (1) There exist a bilinear map $[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}}\,:\,\mathcal{H}\times \mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathcal{H}$ and a bilinear form $\phi \,:\,\mathcal{H}\times \mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ such that

    \begin{equation*}[x,y]=\phi (x,y)e+[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}},\,\forall x,y\in \mathcal{H}.\end{equation*}
    Moreover, for any $x\in \mathcal{H},\,[x,d]=\varphi (x)e+D(x)$ and $[d,x]=\psi (x)e+\delta (x)$ , where $D, \, \delta \in End(\mathcal{H})$ and $\varphi ,\, \psi \in \mathcal{H}^{*}$ .
  2. (2) There exist a linear map $\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\,:\,\mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathcal{H}$ and a linear form $f\,:\,\mathcal{H}\rightarrow \mathbb{K}$ such that $\alpha (x)=f(x)e+\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x).$

It is easy to show that $(\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}},\alpha _{\mathcal{H}})$ is a regular symmetric Hom–Leibniz algebra and that the bilinear form $\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{H}}=\mathfrak{B}|_{\mathcal{H}\times \mathcal{H}}$ is an invariant scalar product on $(\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}},\alpha _{\mathcal{H}})$ . Therefore, the bilinear map $\phi \in Z^2_{\textrm {SLeib}}(\mathcal{H},\mathbb{K})$ . Let $x,y\in \mathcal{H}$ , then $\phi (x,y)=\mathfrak{B}([x,y],d)=\mathfrak{B}(x,[y,d])=\mathfrak{B}(y,[d,x])$ . It follows that $\mathfrak{B}(D(y),x)=\mathfrak{B}(y,\delta (x))$ . So $D=\delta ^{*}$ . Then $[x,y]=[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta (x),y)e$ . Moreover, $\varphi (x)=\mathfrak{B}([x,d],d)=\mathfrak{B}(d,[d,x])=\psi (x)=\mathfrak{B}(x,a_{0})$ and $\gamma _{0}=\mathfrak{B}([d,d],e)=\mathfrak{B}(d,[d,e])=0$ . Then $[d,d]=\lambda _{0} e+a_{0}$ . Consequently, $a_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{L})$ . So $\mathfrak{B}(a_{0},a_{0})=0$ and $\delta (a_{0})=D(a_{0})=0$ . In addition, for all $x\in \mathcal{H}$ we have, $[a_{0},x]_{\mathcal{H}}=[a_{0},x]-\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{0}),x)e=0,\,[x,a_{0}]_{\mathcal{H}}=[x,a_{0}]-\mathfrak{B}(x,D(a_{0}))e=0$ . Then $a_{0}\in \mathcal{Z}(\mathcal{H})$ .

Let $x,y\in \mathcal{H}$ , then the fact that $\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha (y))$ implies that $\mathfrak{B}(\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(x,\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y))$ . Moreover, $\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (d),x)=\mathfrak{B}(d,\alpha (x))$ which is equivalent to $\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},x)=\mathfrak{B}(d,\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x)+f(x)e)=f(x).$ Then $f(x)=\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},x)$ . It follows that $\alpha (x)=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x)+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},x)e$ . Also $\gamma _{1}=\mathfrak{B}(\alpha (d),e)=\mathfrak{B}(d,\alpha (e))=\lambda$ . Then $\alpha (d)=\lambda _{1}e+a_{1}+\lambda d$ . Since $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha )$ is a left Hom–Leibniz algebra satisfying $[\alpha (\mathscr{X}),[\mathscr{Y},\mathscr{Z}]]+[[\mathscr{Y},\mathscr{Z}],\alpha (\mathscr{X})]=0,\,\forall \mathscr{X},\mathscr{Y},\mathscr{Z}\in \mathcal{L}$ , then a simple computation proves that

\begin{eqnarray*} &\,& D=\delta ^{*},\,\delta ^{2}+D\circ \delta =0,\,\delta \circ D=D\circ \delta ,\,(\delta +D)([\mathcal{H},\mathcal{H}]_{\mathcal{H}})=\{0\},\\ &\,& \delta (\mathcal{H})\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{H}},\,\delta ^{*}(\mathcal{H})\subseteq \mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{H}},\,\textrm {where}\,\mathcal{R}_{\mathcal{H}}=\{x\in \mathcal{H}/\,[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}+[y,x]_{\mathcal{H}}=0,\,\forall y\in \mathcal{H}\}. \end{eqnarray*}

Moreover, for all $x,y\in \mathcal{H}$ , we have

\begin{align*} 0&=[[d,x],\alpha (y)]+[\alpha (x),[d,y]]-[\alpha (d),[x,y]]\\ &=[\delta (x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y)]+ [\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\delta (y)]-[a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}]-\lambda [d,[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}]\\ &=[\delta (x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta ^{2}(x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y))e+ [\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\delta (y)]_{\mathcal{H}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\delta (y))e\\ &-[a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}]_{\mathcal{H}}-\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{1}),[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})e-\lambda \delta ([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}). \end{align*}

Therefore,

(7.1) \begin{equation} [a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}]_{\mathcal{H}}+\lambda \delta ([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})=[\delta (x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}+ [\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\delta (y)]_{\mathcal{H}} \end{equation}

and

(7.2) \begin{equation} [\delta (a_{1}),x]_{\mathcal{H}}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta ^{2}(x)+D\circ \delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x), \end{equation}

thus

(7.3) \begin{equation} [\delta (a_{1}),\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta ^{2}+D\circ \delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}. \end{equation}

Similarly, we prove that the identity $[\alpha (x),[y,d]]=[[x,y],\alpha (d)]+[\alpha (y),[x,d]]$ implies that

(7.4) \begin{equation} [[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}},a_{1}]_{\mathcal{H}}+\lambda D([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})=[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),D(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}-[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y),D(x)]_{\mathcal{H}}, \end{equation}

and

(7.5) \begin{equation} [D(a_{1}),x]_{\mathcal{H}}=\delta ^{2}\circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x)-\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ D^{2}(x). \end{equation}

In addition, the fact that $[\alpha (y),[x,d]]=[[y,x],\alpha (d)]+[\alpha (x),[y,d]]$ implies that

(7.6) \begin{equation} [[y,x]_{\mathcal{H}},a_{1}]_{\mathcal{H}}+\lambda D([y,x]_{\mathcal{H}})=[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y),D(x)]_{\mathcal{H}}-[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),D(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}, \end{equation}

and

(7.7) \begin{equation} [x,D(a_{1})]_{\mathcal{H}}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ D^{2}(x)-\delta ^{2}\circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x), \end{equation}

Therefore, the identities (7.2), (7.5), and (7.7) lead to

(7.8) \begin{equation} [\delta (a_{1}),x]_{\mathcal{H}}=-[D(a_{1}),x]_{\mathcal{H}}=[x,D(a_{1})]_{\mathcal{H}}. \end{equation}

Besides, the identities (7.1) and (7.4) lead to $[a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}]_{\mathcal{H}}=-[[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}},a_{1}]_{\mathcal{H}}$ which is obviously satisfied by virtue of (2.1) and the fact that $\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}$ is invertible on $\mathcal{H}$ . Now, let $x,y\in \mathcal{H}$ , we have $\alpha ([x,y])=\alpha ([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta (x),y)e) =\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})e+\mathfrak{B}(\lambda \delta (x),y)e$ . In the other hand, $[\alpha (x),\alpha (y)]=[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}+\mathfrak{B}(\delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y))e$ . Then $\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}([x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})=[\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y)]_{\mathcal{H}}$ and $\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},[x,y]_{\mathcal{H}})+\mathfrak{B}(\lambda \delta (x),y)=\mathfrak{B}(\delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(y))$ . Since $\mathfrak{B}$ is non-degenerate, then the previous identity leads to $[a_{1},x]_{\mathcal{H}}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x)-\lambda \delta (x)$ , which may be written

(7.9) \begin{equation} [a_{1},\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}-\lambda \delta . \end{equation}

Similarly, the fact that $\alpha ([d,x])=[\alpha (d),\alpha (x)]$ implies that

(7.10) \begin{equation} \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta (x)=[a_{1},\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x)]_{\mathcal{H}}+\lambda \delta \circ \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x) \end{equation}

and $\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},\delta (x))+\mathfrak{B}(\lambda x,a_{0})=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{1}),\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x))+\mathfrak{B}(\lambda \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(x),a_{0})$ . Then the previous identity entails that

(7.11) \begin{equation} D(a_{1})+\lambda a_{0}=\alpha _{\mathcal{H}}\circ \delta (a_{1})+\lambda \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(a_{0}). \end{equation}

Furthermore, $\alpha ([d,d])=[\alpha (d),\alpha (d)]$ follows that

(7.12) \begin{equation} \alpha _{\mathcal{H}}(a_{0})=[a_{1},a_{1}]_{\mathcal{H}}+\lambda ^{2} a_{0}+\lambda (\delta +D)(a_{1}), \end{equation}

also

(7.13) \begin{equation} \lambda \lambda _{0}+\mathfrak{B}(a_{1},a_{0})=\mathfrak{B}(\delta (a_{1}),a_{1})+\lambda ^{2} \lambda _{0}+2 \mathfrak{B}(\lambda a_{1},a_{0}). \end{equation}

Therefore, using the identities (7.3), (7.8), (7.11), and (7.13), we can consider the quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra $\overline {\mathcal{L}}=\mathcal{V}^{*}\oplus \mathcal{H}\oplus \mathcal{V}$ double extension of $(\mathcal{H},[\cdot ,\cdot ]_{\mathcal{H}},\alpha _{\mathcal{H}},\mathfrak{B}_{\mathcal{H}})$ by $\mathcal{V}$ by means of the special admissible $(\delta ,a_{0},a_{1})$ .

It is clear that the map $\nabla :\mathcal{L}\rightarrow \overline {\mathcal{L}},\,\lambda e+x+\lambda 'd\longmapsto \lambda d^{*}+x+\lambda 'd$ is an isomorphism of Hom–Leibniz algebras. Then $\mathcal{L}$ is isomorphic to the double extension of $\mathcal{H}$ by $\mathcal{V}$ .

The following corollary reduces the description of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras to that of quadratic regular Hom–Lie algebras.

Corollary 7.1. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a non-Hom–Lie quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra. Then $\mathcal{L}$ is obtained from a quadratic regular Hom–Lie algebra by a finite number of “Leibniz” double extensions by the one-dimensional Lie algebra.

Proof. We proceed by induction on the dimension $n\in \mathbb{N}$ of $\mathcal{L}$ . If $n=2$ , then $\mathcal{L}$ is the “Leibniz” double extension of $\{0\}$ by the one-dimensional Lie algebra.

Assume that the result is true for every $k\lt n$ . Then, invoking the preceding theorem, $\mathcal{L}$ is a double extension of a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra $\mathcal{H}$ by the one-dimensional Lie algebra. Since $dim(\mathcal{H})=n-2\lt n$ , then applying the induction hypothesis to $\mathcal{H}$ , we conclude that $\mathcal{L}$ is obtained as in Corollary 7.1.

As a consequence, we give in the corollary below the inductive description of quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebras using the previous corollary and the description of quadratic regular Hom–Lie algebras given in [Reference Benayadi and Makhlouf19].

Let us denote by $\Sigma$ the set incorporating the trivial Hom–Lie algebra $\{0\}$ , the one-dimensional Hom–Lie algebra and all simple involutive Hom–Lie algebras.

Corollary 7.2. Let $(\mathcal{L},[\cdot ,\cdot ],\alpha ,\mathfrak{B})$ be a quadratic regular Hom–Leibniz algebra. If $\mathcal{L}\notin \Sigma$ , then $\mathcal{L}$ is obtained from a finite number of elements of $\Sigma$ by a finite sequence of orthogonal direct sums of involutive quadratic Hom–Lie algebras and/or “Lie” involutive double extensions by the one-dimensional Hom–Lie algebra and/or “Lie” involutive double extensions by a simple involutive Hom–Lie algebra and/or “Leibniz” double extensions by the one-dimensional Lie algebra.

Proof. According to Corollary 7.1, Proposition 6.7, and Theorem 6.13 in [Reference Benayadi and Makhlouf19], $\mathcal{L}$ satisfies the Corollary 7.2.

Acknowledgments

We thank the referee for his interesting remarks and suggestions, which improved the readability of this article.

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