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Commutator of
Nilpotence of

Nilpotence of

Commutator of

The commutator of was defined in 〚Lie superalgebra structure on 〛. In particular, when considering a commutator of an element of and an element of , the following description is useful. Consider the – the universal enveloping algebra of , and its dual coalgebra :

Consider the projector :

(44)

which is identity on and zero on all tensors of rank containing at least one . This induces a map from to which we also denote :

(45)

For any Lie superalgebra let denote the commutator map:

In case of , we can consider as a subspace in using the projector of Eq. (45):

Then, the commutator on satisfies:

where 

Nilpotence of

We will now prove that anticommutes with :

(46)

When , by definition . We must therefore check that :