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:
Suppose a one-parameter family
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.,
Then, we know that the formula:
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:
Define $\varphi: G \to L$ by the formula:
$\theta$ is a one-cochain in $C^1(\varphi')$. However, it is not a cocycle. In fact, let us differentiate (5.4) and set $\lambda = 0$:
This gives the formula:
where $\varphi(\omega)$ is the two-chain in $C^2(\varphi')$ given by:
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 $\varphi$.