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arxiv: 0812.2255 · v3 · pith:42KX4ST2new · submitted 2008-12-11 · 🧮 math.KT · math.CA· math.RA

How Euler would compute the Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic of a Lie superalgebra

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The Euler-Poincar\'e characteristic of a finite-dimensional Lie algebra vanishes. If we want to extend this result to Lie superalgebras, we should deal with infinite sums. We observe that a suitable method of summation, which goes back to Euler, allows to do that, to a certain degree. The mathematics behind it is simple, we just glue the pieces of elementary homological algebra, first-year calculus and pedestrian combinatorics together, and present them in a (hopefully) coherent manner.

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