Deformations of semi-direct products
Deformations of semi-direct products
We exhibit in this article a contraction of the direct product Lie algebra $g\oplus g$ of a finite-dimensional complex Lie algebra $g$ onto the semi-direct product Lie algebra $g\rtimes g$, where the first factor $g$ is viewed as a trivial Lie algebra and as the adjoint $g$-module. This contraction gives …