Multipliers and unicentral Leibniz algebras
In this paper, we prove Leibniz analogues of results found in Peggy Batten’s 1993 dissertation. We first construct a Hochschild–Serre-type spectral sequence of low dimension, which is used to characterize the multiplier in terms of the second cohomology group with coefficients in the field. The sequence is then extended by a term and a Ganea sequence is constructed for Leibniz algebras. The maps involved with these exact sequences, as well as a characterization of the multiplier, are used to establish criteria for when a central ideal is contained in a certain set seen in the definition of unicentral Leibniz algebras. These criteria are then specialized, and we obtain conditions for when the center of the cover maps onto the center of the algebra.