nLab Sylvain Lavau

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Selected writings

Relation of Leibniz algebras to the embedding tensor and tensor hierarchies in gauged supergravity:

• Sylvain Lavau, Tensor hierarchies and Leibniz algebras, J. Geom. Phys. 144:147-189 (2019) (arXiv:1708.07068)

A proposal for understanding tensor hierarchies as dg-Lie algebra/L-infinity algebra-refinenents of Leibniz algebras:

• Sylvain Lavau, Jakob Palmkvist, Infinity-enhancing of Leibniz algebras (arXiv:1907.05752)

• Sylvain Lavau, Jim Stasheff, $L_\infty$-algebra extensions of Leibniz algebras (arXiv:2003.07838)

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