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the algebra is not isomorphic to the one with which we started at $\varepsilon = 0$. The Gell-Mann formula itself, i.e., (5.2), now provides an analytic continuation of the representation of the $[\cdot, \cdot]_0$ structure that is given, each representation for $\varepsilon$ being a representation of the $[\cdot, \cdot]_e$ structure.

Let us now look for the interpretation of this in terms of cohomology. Let us change notations to conform with our earlier work. Suppose $G$ and $L$ are Lie algebras, with the bracket in $G$ given by $[X, Y]$, and suppose $\varphi$ is a homomorphism $G \to L$. Again, let $\varphi'$ be the homomorphism for $G$ into the linear transformations on $L$ given by:

φ(X)(Z)=[φ(X),Z]for XG,ZL. \varphi'(X)(Z) = [\varphi(X), Z] \quad \text{for} \ X \in G, Z \in L.

Suppose a one-parameter family

([X,Y])λ ([X, Y])_{\lambda}

of Lie algebra structures is given on $G$, reducing to the given one for $\lambda = 0$. Let $\gamma: G \to (\text{linear maps on } G)$ be the adjoint representation of the $\lambda = 0$ Lie algebra on $G$, i.e.,

γ(X)(Y)=[X,Y]for X,YG. \gamma(X)(Y) = [X, Y] \quad \text{for } X, Y \in G.

Then, we know that the formula:

ω(X,Y)=ddλ[X,Y]λλ=0 \omega(X, Y) = \frac{d}{d\lambda} [X, Y]_{\lambda}|_{\lambda=0}

defines $\omega$ as a two-cocycle relative to $\gamma$, i.e., on element in $Z^2(\gamma)$, whose cohomology class in $H^2(\gamma)$ measures the "nonisomorphism" of the structure at $\gamma = 0$ and that for small, but nonzero $\gamma$.

Suppose further that, for each $\lambda$, $\varphi_\lambda$ is a linear mapping of $G \to L$ reducing to $\varphi$ for $\lambda = 0$, such that:

φλ([X,Y]λ)=[φλ(X),φλ(Y)]for X,YG.(5.4) \varphi_{\lambda}([X, Y]_{\lambda}) = [\varphi_{\lambda}(X), \varphi_{\lambda}(Y)] \quad \text{for } X, Y \in G. \quad (5.4)

Define $\varphi: G \to L$ by the formula:

θ(X)=ddλφλ(X)λ=0 \theta(X) = \frac{d}{d\lambda} \varphi_{\lambda}(X)|_{\lambda=0}

$\theta$ is a one-cochain in $C^1(\varphi')$. However, it is not a cocycle. In fact, let us differentiate (5.4) and set $\lambda = 0$:

θ([X,Y])+φ(ω(X,Y))=[θ(X),φ(Y)]+[φ(X),θ(Y)]. \theta([X, Y]) + \varphi(\omega(X, Y)) = [\theta(X), \varphi(Y)] + [\varphi(X), \theta(Y)].

This gives the formula:

φ(ω)=dθ(5.5) \varphi(\omega) = d\theta \qquad (5.5)

where $\varphi(\omega)$ is the two-chain in $C^2(\varphi')$ given by:

φ(ω)(X,Y)=φ(ω(X,Y)). \varphi(\omega)(X, Y) = \varphi(\omega(X, Y)).

Thus, $\omega$ considered as a cocycle in $C^2(\gamma)$ is not necessarily a coboundary, but its image under $\varphi$, $\varphi(\omega)$, is a coboundary, and the element $\varphi$ in $C^1(\gamma)$ is the first term in the analytic continuation of $\varphi$.