Semi-quantum key distribution (SQKD) is an important research issue which allows one quantum participant equipped with advanced quantum devices to distribute a shared secret key securely with one classical user who has restricted capabilities. In this paper, we propose a SQKD protocol which allows one quantum user to distribute two different private secret keys to two classical users respectively at the same time. Alice distributes two particle sequences from Bell states to Bob and Charlie respectively. Once the particles have been processed and returned, Alice can simultaneously detect reflected particles by Bob and Charlie based on Bell-state measurement and generate two different raw keys. To enable more participants in sharing keys, this protocol can be extended to the m + 1 party communication scheme by employing m-particle GHZ state. In large-scale communication networks, this extended model significantly reduces the complexity of communication compared to the traditional SQKD scheme. Security analyses show that the presented protocol is free from several general attacks, such as the entangle-measure attack, the modification attack, the double CNOT attack, and so on.

We study the structure of a metric n-Lie algebra G over the complex field C. Let G = S ⊕R be the Levi decomposition, where R is the radical of G and S is a strong semisimple subalgebra of G. Denote by m(G) the number of all minimal ideals of an indecomposable metric n-Lie algebra and R ⊥ the orthogonal complement of R. We obtain the following results. As S-modules, R ⊥ is isomorphic to the dual module of G/R. The dimension of the vector space spanned by all nondegenerate invariant symmetric bilinear forms on G is equal to that of the vector space of certain linear transformations on G; this dimension is greater than or equal to m(G) + 1. The centralizer of R in G is equal to the sum of all minimal ideals; it is the direct sum of R ⊥ and the center of G. Finally, G has no strong semisimple ideals if and only if R ⊥ ⊆ R.

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We introduce and study strongly Gorenstein subcategory [Formula: see text], relative to an additive full subcategory [Formula: see text] of an abelian category [Formula: see text]. When [Formula: see text] is self-orthogonal, we give some sufficient conditions under which the property of an object in [Formula: see text] can be inherited by its subobjects and quotient objects. Then, we introduce the notions of one-sided (strongly) Gorenstein subcategories. Under the assumption that [Formula: see text] is closed under countable direct sums (respectively, direct products), we prove that an object is in right (respectively, left) Gorenstein category [Formula: see text] (respectively, [Formula: see text]) if and only if it is a direct summand of an object in right (respectively, left) strongly Gorenstein subcategory [Formula: see text] (respectively, [Formula: see text]). As applications, some known results are obtained as corollaries.