A New Approach to Leibniz Bialgebras

Abstract

A study of Leibniz bialgebras arising naturally through the double of Leibniz algebras analogue to the classical Drinfeld’s double is presented. A key ingredient of our work is the fact that the underline vector space of a Leibniz algebra becomes a Lie algebra and also a commutative associative algebra, when provided with appropriate new products. A special class of them, the coboundary Leibniz bialgebras, gives us the natural framework for studying the Yang-Baxter equation (YBE) in our context, inspired in the classical Yang-Baxter equation as well as in the associative Yang-Baxter equation. Results of the existence of coboundary Leibniz bialgebra on a symmetric Leibniz algebra under certain conditions are obtained. Some interesting examples of coboundary Leibniz bialgebras are also included. The final part of the paper is dedicated to coboundary Leibniz bialgebra structures on quadratic Leibniz algebras.