Cubic Dirac operators and the strange Freudenthal-de Vries formula for colour Lie algebras

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to define cubic Dirac operators for colour Lie algebras. We give a necessary and sufficient condition to construct a colour Lie algebra from an $\epsilon$-orthogonal representation of an $\epsilon$-quadratic colour Lie algebra. This is used to prove a strange Freudenthal-de Vries formula for basic colour Lie algebras as well as a Parthasarathy formula for cubic Dirac operators of colour Lie algebras. We calculate the cohomology induced by this Dirac operator, analogously to the algebraic Vogan conjecture proved by Huang and Pand\v{z}i\'c.