Subject: query From: jim stasheff Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:40:42 -0400 Over 50 years ago, H Cartan had an axiomatic description of the Lie derivative for a Lie algebra g acting e.g. on the forms on a principal bundle. It should be straightforward to generalize this to a Lie derivative for 'dg Lie algebras. Has it already been done? Reference please. How about for L_\infty-algebras? jim stasheff