Cohomologies and crossed modules for pre-Lie Rinehart algebras

Abstract: A pre-Lie-Rinehart algebra is an algebraic generalization of the notion of a left-symmetric algebroid. We construct pre-Lie-Rinehart algebras from r-matrices through Lie algebra actions. We study cohomologies of pre-Lie-Rinehart algebras and show that abelian extensions of pre-Lie-Rinehart algebras are classified by the second cohomology groups. We introduce the notion of crossed modules for pre-Lie-Rinehart algebras and show that they are classified by the third cohomology groups of pre-Lie-Rinehart algebras. At last, we use (pre-)Lie-Rinehart 2-algebras to characterize the crossed modules for (pre-)Lie Rinehart algebras.