Weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets, Schouten brackets and supermanifolds (Q2302554)

The paper is focused on weakly nonlocal Poisson structures related to \((1+1)\)-dimensional Hamiltonian systems. The authors' aim is to define the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket for such integro-differential Poisson operators, thus extending well-known results for local Poisson structures. This allows them to prove in an alternative way the Hamiltonian property of the Poisson operators for the Krichever-Novikov equation, the modified KdV equation, and of certain first-order weakly nonlocal Poisson operators considered for the first time in [\textit{E. V. Ferapontov}, Funct. Anal. Appl. 25, No. 3, 195--204 (1991, Zbl 0742.58018); translation from Funkts. Anal. Prilozh. 25, No. 3, 37--49 (1991)]. The approach used in the paper represents an alternative to those proposed in [\textit{A. De Sole} and \textit{V. G. Kac}, Jpn. J. Math. 8, No. 2, 233--347 (2013, Zbl 1286.37062); \textit M. Casati et al., Three computational approaches to weakly nonlocal Poisson brackets, Preprint, \url{arXiv:1903.08204}]. By introducing extra odd (Grassmann) nonlocal variables, the weakly nonlocal Poisson operators are replaced by (super-)functions. In this way the original problem is reduced to a problem for superfunctions defined on superbundles. The paper could be of some interest for experts in geometric theory of partial differential equations and integrable systems.