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We generalize to arbitrary categories of algebras the notion of an NS-algebra. We do this by using a bimodule property, as we did for defining the general notions of a dendriform and tridendriform algebra. We show that several types of operators lead to NS-algebras: Nijenhuis operators, twisted Rota-Baxter operators and relative Rota-Baxter operators of arbitrary weight.
We generalize three results of M. Aguiar, which are valid for Loday's dendriform algebras, to arbitrary dendriform algebras, i.e., dendriform algebras associated to algebras satisfying any given set of relations. We define these dendriform algebras using a bimodule property and show how the dendriform relations are easily determined. An important concept which we use is the notion of polarization of an algebra, which we generalize here to (arbitrary) dendriform algebras: it leads to a generalization of two of Aguiar's results, dealing with deformations and filtrations of dendriform algebras. We also introduce weak Rota-Baxter operators for arbitrary algebras, which lead to the construction of generalized dendriform algebras and to a generalization of Aguiar's third result, which provides an interpretation of the natural relation between infinitesimal bialgebras and pre-Lie algebras in terms of dendriform algebras. Throughout the text, we give many examples and show how they are related.
Poisson algebras are, just like Lie algebras, particular cases of Lie-Rinehart algebras. The latter were introduced by Rinehart in his seminal 1963 paper, where he also introduces the notion of an enveloping algebra and proves --- under some mild conditions --- that the enveloping algebra of a Lie-Rinehart algebra satisfies a Poincaré-Birkhoff-Witt theorem (PBW theorem). In the case of a Poisson algebra $({\mathcal A},\cdot,\{\cdot,\cdot\})$ over a commutative ring $R$ (with unit), Rinehart's result boils down to the statement that if $\mathcal A$ is \emph{smooth} (as an algebra), then gr$(U({\mathcal A}))$ and $\mathrm{Sym}_{\mathcal A}(Ω({\mathcal A}))$ are isomorphic as graded algebras; in this formula, $U({\mathcal A})$ stands for the Poisson enveloping algebra of ${\mathcal A}$ and $Ω({\mathcal A})$ is the ${\mathcal A}$-module of Kähler differentials of ${\mathcal A}$ (viewing ${\mathcal A}$ as an $R$-algebra). In this paper, we give several new constructions of the Poisson enveloping algebra in some general and in some particular contexts. Moreover, we show that for an important class of \emph{singular} Poisson algebras, the PBW theorem still holds. In geometrical terms, these Poisson algebras correspond to (singular) Poisson hypersurfaces of arbitrary smooth affine Poisson varieties.
For a commutative algebra the shuffle product is a morphism of complexes. We generalize this result to the quantum shuffle product, associated to a class of non-commutative algebras (for example all the Hopf algebras). As a first application we show that the Hochschild-Serre identity is the dual statement of our result. In particular, we extend this identity to Hopf algebras. Secondly, we clarify the construction of a class of quasi-Hopf algebras.