Octo-bialgebras

Abstract

The notion of octo-algebra was introduced by Leroux as a Loday algebra with 8 operations. In this paper, we introduce a notion of octo-bialgebra as a bialgebra theory of octo-algebras, which is equivalent to a double construction of a quadri-algebra with a nondegenerate 2-cocycle or a double construction of an octo-algebra with a nondegenerate invariant bilinear form. Some properties of octo-bialgebras are given, including the study of the coboundary cases which leads to a construction from an analogue of the classical Yang-Baxter equation in an octo-algebra.

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