#### Vol. 2, No. 4, 2008

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Operad of formal homogeneous spaces and Bernoulli numbers

### Sergei A. Merkulov

Vol. 2 (2008), No. 4, 407–433
##### Abstract

It is shown that for any morphism, $\varphi :\mathfrak{g}\to \mathfrak{h}$, of Lie algebras the vector space underlying the Lie algebra $\mathfrak{h}$ is canonically a $\mathfrak{g}$-homogeneous formal manifold with the action of $\mathfrak{g}$ being highly nonlinear and twisted by Bernoulli numbers. This fact is obtained from a study of the 2-coloured operad of formal homogeneous spaces whose minimal resolution gives a new conceptual explanation of both Ziv Ran’s Jacobi–Bernoulli complex and Fiorenza–Manetti’s ${L}_{\infty }$-algebra structure on the mapping cone of a morphism of two Lie algebras. All these constructions are iteratively extended to the case of a morphism of arbitrary ${L}_{\infty }$-algebras.

##### Mathematical Subject Classification 2000
Primary: 18D50
Secondary: 11B68, 55P48
##### Milestones
Revised: 17 January 2008
Accepted: 9 March 2008
Published: 15 June 2008
##### Authors
 Sergei A. Merkulov Department of Mathematics Stockholm University 10691 Stockholm Sweden