On LA-Courant algebroids and Poisson Lie 2-algebroids (Q2007194): Difference between revisions

T.J. Courant discovered a skew-symmetric Lie bracket on \(TM \oplus T^* M\). The more general structure of a Courant algebroid, links the study of constrained Hamiltonian systems with generalised complex geometry. They were studied extensively throughout the 1990s by Zhang-Ju Liu, Alan Weinstein and Ping Xu, as well as Severa and Roytenberg. The associated integrability problem is an open question to this day. To this end, it is important to understand better these structures. Courant algebroids are ``higher'' geometric structures. This can be made precise in the following ways: Roytenberg and Severa (independently) understood them in a graded sense, namely they described them as symplectic Lie 2-algebroids. On the other hand, Courant's example fits into \textit{K. C. H. Mackenzie}'s study of multiple structures, in particular it is an example of a double Lie algebroid [J. Reine Angew. Math. 658, 193--245 (2011; Zbl 1246.53112)]. \textit{D. Li-Bland} in his PhD thesis [LA-Courant algebroids and their applications. \url{arXiv:1204.2796}] introduced a more general class of Courant algebroids (LA-Courant algebroids) which are Courant algebroid structures in the category of vector bundles. They too fit in the multiple structures studied by Mackenzie. The paper under review studies the correspondence between LA-Courant algebroids and Poisson Lie 2-algebroids (the latter generalize symplectic Lie 2-algebroids), using the author's earlier results on split Lie 2-algebroids and self-dual 2-representations.