The Kostant invariant and special $\epsilon$-orthogonal representations for $\epsilon$-quadratic colour Lie algebras

Abstract

Let k be a field of characteristic not two or three, let $\mathfrak{g}$ be a finite-dimensional colour Lie algebra and let V be a finite-dimensional representation of $\mathfrak{g}$. In this article we give various ways of constructing a colour Lie algebra $\tilde{\mathfrak{g}}$ whose bracket in some sense extends both the bracket of $\mathfrak{g}$ and the action of $\mathfrak{g}$ on V. Colour Lie algebras, originally introduced by R. Ree ([Ree60]), generalise both Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras, and in those cases our results imply many known results ([Kos99], [Kos01], [CK15], [SS15]). For a class of representations arising in this context we show there are covariants satisfying identities analogous to Mathews identities for binary cubics.