Poisson structures on double Lie groups (Q1299245)

This is a very well-written review of Lie bialgebra structures in terms of the double Lie algebra and of Manin and Gauss decompositions. The first half of the paper gives a very detailed general setup: Poisson-Lie group, metrical Lie algebras, Schouten bracket, Yang-Baxter equation, etc. We cite from the introduction: ``In the latter half of this paper we consider `deformations' of \(T^*G\) in the form of so called double Lie groups equipped with the analogs of the symplectic structure on \(T^*G\), closely related to Poisson-Lie groups. Parts of the results may be found spread over different places mainly in the unfortunately unpublished thesis of \textit{J.-H. Lu} [Multiplicative and affine Poisson structures on Lie groups, Thesis, Berkeley (1990)], but also to some extent in [\textit{A. Yu. Alekseev} and \textit{A. Z. Malkin}, Commun. Math. Phys. 162, 147-173 (1994; Zbl 0797.58020), \textit{M. A. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky}, Teor. Mat. Fiz. 93, 302-329 (1992; Zbl 0834.22019)], and others. Our presentation makes the double group the main object rather than Poisson-Lie groups, which makes the roles of \(G\) and \(G^*\) manifestly symmetric and contains all the information about \(G\) and \(G^*\) and all relations between them. All these are also associated to the theory of symplectic groupoids as `deformed cotangent bundles' in general, and with mechanical systems based on Poisson symmetries as studied for instance in [\textit{G. Marmo}, \textit{A. Simoni} and \textit{A. Stern}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. A 10, 99-114 (1995)] and [\textit{S. Zakrzewski}, Acta Phys. Pol. B 27, 2801-2810 (1996; Zbl 0966.37504)]. The explicit formulae from the second part have already found applications in [\textit{D. Alekseevsky}, \textit{J. Grabowski}, \textit{G. Marmo} and \textit{P. W. Michor}, Mod. Phys. Lett. A 12, 1637-1648 (1997; Zbl 1020.37538)].