Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket and derived bracket associated to a nonsymmetric operad with multiplication
Anusuiya Baishya, Apurba Das
TL;DR
This work develops two graded Lie brackets on a nonsymmetric operad with multiplication, namely the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket and a derived bracket, whose Maurer-Cartan elements correspond to Nijenhuis and Rota-Baxter elements, respectively. It establishes differential graded Lie algebra structures, representations, and cohomologies in this operadic setting, and derives a deformation-theoretic framework linking multiplicative structures to operator theory on Loday-type algebras. The authors provide explicit bracket formulas and demonstrate their applicability to a range of associative-like algebras, including dendriform, Hom-associative, and associative conformal algebras, with special cases recovering classical results. Overall, the paper unifies and extends operator theory in a broad operadic context, offering concrete tools for studying Nijenhuis and Rota-Baxter operators across binary quadratic operads.
Abstract
This paper aims to construct two graded Lie algebras associated with a nonsymmetric operad with multiplication. Maurer-Cartan elements of these graded Lie algebras correspond respectively to Nijenhuis elements and Rota-Baxter elements for the given multiplication. Explicit forms of these brackets are given to study Nijenhuis operators and Rota-Baxter operators on some Loday-type algebras.
