On matrix Lie affgebras

Abstract: Lie brackets or Lie affgebra structures on several classes of affine spaces of matrices are studied. These include general normalised affine matrices, special normalised affine matrices, anti-symmetric and anti-hermitian normalised affine matrices and special anti-hermitian normalised affine matrices. It is shown that, when retracted to the underlying vector spaces, they correspond to classical matrix Lie algebras: general and special linear, anti-symmetric, anti-hermitian and special anti-hermitian Lie algebras respectively.