Almost regular Poisson manifolds and their holonomy groupoids (Q2362852): Difference between revisions

In the paper the authors investigate the geometry of Poisson structures from the point of view of the singular foliations generated by these structures. By a singular foliation \(\mathcal F\) on a smooth manifold \(M\) they understand a \(C^{\infty}(M)\) submodule of the Lie algebra \({\mathcal X}_c(M)\) of smooth vector fields with compact support on \(M\) which is locally finitely generated and stable by the Lie bracket. The main object of the study is a subclass of singular foliations called projective foliations. These are those submodules which are isomorphic as \(C^{\infty}(M)\) modules to the module of sections with of compact support of some vector bundle. The main result assures the existence of Poisson structures on the holonomy groupoid of such a singular foliation. The paper is divided in five sections. The first introductory section sets out the basics of singular foliations, in particular they define projective singular foliations. In the second sections, the authors study singular foliations defined by Poisson structures and introduce the main object of the study -- the almost regular Poisson manifold (Definition 2.5). A Poisson structure is called almost regular if its underlying foliation is projective. Later in the section they present examples of such Poisson structures as well as some methods of constructing new structures from known ones. The main result is formulated and proved in the fourth section. It is shown that the holonomy groupoid of the underlying foliation of an almost regular Poisson manifold admits a canonical Poisson structure which makes it a Poisson groupoid for the corresponding Lie bialgebroid, (Theorem 4.3). The rest of the section is devoted to the study of the properties of this Poisson groupoid as well as to the presentations of some important examples. The final section contains some remarks concerning the integrability problem of Lie algebroids in view of the results presented in the previous sections of the paper.