Simple and Pseudo Quadratic Leibniz Superalgebras

Abstract

Compactness of subspaces of a Z2-graded vector space is introduced and used to study simple Leibniz superalgebras. We introduce left and right super-invariance of bilinear forms over superalgebras. Pseudo-quadratic Leibniz superalgebras are Leibniz superalgebras endowed with a non degenerate, supersymmetric and super-invariant bilinear form. In this paper, we show that every nondegenerate, supersymmetric and super-invariant bilinear form over a Leibniz superalgebra induce a Lie superalgebra over the underlying vector space. Then by using double extension extended to Leibniz superalgebras, we study pseudo-quadratic Leibniz superalgebras and the induced Lie superalgebras. In particular, we generalize some results on Leibniz algebras to Leibniz superalgebras.