The geometrization of \(\mathbb{N}\)-manifolds of degree 2 (Q1788804)

In the paper under review, the author describes a categorical equivalence between \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds of degree \(2\) and double vector bundles equipped with a linear metric. In the second part of the paper, she examines Poisson structures on \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds of degree \(2\) and their counterparts on metric double vector bundles. The main aim of the paper is to understand \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds of degree \(2\) in the more classical framework of double vector bundles equipped with some additional structure. The paper is divided into four sections. Naturally, the first in an introduction. In Section 2 the necessary details of double vector bundles, their duals and splittings are presented. The relation between VB-algebroids and 2-term representations up to homotopy is recalled. In Section 3 the definition of \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds is given alongside the definition of a metric double vector bundle. It is in this section that the categorical equivalence between \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds of degree \(2\) and metric double vector bundles is given. In Section 4 attention is turned to Poisson structures of degree \(-2\) on \(\mathbb N\)-manifolds of degree 2. Reviewers Comments: A similar equivalence between \(\mathbb{N}\)-manifolds of degree \(k\) and particular \(k\)-fold vector bundles was given by \textit{A. J. Bruce} et al. [SIGMA, Symmetry Integrability Geom. Methods Appl. 12, Paper 106, 30 p. (2016; Zbl 1359.58003)]. Also, see [\textit{E. Vishnyakova}, ``Graded manifolds of type \(\Delta\) and \(n\)-fold vector bundles'', Lett. Math. Phys. (to appear; \url{doi:10.1007/s11005-018-1105-9})] for another related approach.