Schouten identity resembles Jacobi identity

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The discussion highlights the resemblance between the Schouten and Jacobi identities, noting that both can be related through a common structure where the variable 'p' appears in each term of the Schouten identity. This connection is suggested to be significant in understanding algebraic structures and is linked to the BCJ duality conjecture. Participants express a shared interest in exploring this relationship further, with one mentioning ongoing investigations into its implications for BCJ duality. The conversation also touches on challenges in understanding the proof of Schouten's identity, indicating a collaborative effort to deepen comprehension. Overall, the exploration of these identities underscores their potential relevance in theoretical physics and mathematics.
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Am I the only one who sees the resemblance between these two identities?

Schouten:

<p q> <r s> +<p r> <s q>+ <p s > <q r> =0

Jacobi:

[A,[B,C]]+[C,[A,B]]+[B,[C,A]]=0

In Schouten the p occours in each term in the three terms, so we can regard it as dumby variable, and somehow get a correspondence between these two identities, or the algebraic structures that each identity is used in.

Am I being a cranck here? it's not my intention, as always, just trying to understand.

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I am not sure I understand the proof of Schouten's identity in Srednicki's, I'll try to reread it.
 
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I had a dream or a thought about your work; any new progress on your work?
 
Well, for one thing, I'm investigating how it relates to BCJ duality.
 
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Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?

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