Free Reductive Lie Algebra Pairs of Lie-Yamaguti algebras

Abstract

The goal of this article is to show the categorical links between on the one hand the category of reductive Lie algebra pairs $\mathcal{RLP}$ and on the other hand the category of Lie-Yamaguti algebras $\mathcal{LY}$. The fact that the well-known construction of an enveloping algebra associating to a Lie-Yamaguti algebra a reductive Lie algebra pair is not functorial leads us to the main construction of the article, namely a left adjoint to the natural restriction functor $G:\mathcal{RLP}\to\mathcal{LY}$. As a final result we observe that the construction of the enveloping algebra becomes functorial when one restricts the morphisms of the categories $\mathcal{RLP}$ and $\mathcal{LY}$ to the surjective ones. Then it becomes a right adjoint to the restriction functor.