Quasi-Lie bialgebroids and twisted Poisson manifolds (Q1868233)

The Lie bialgebroids were introduced by \textit{K. Mackenzie} and \textit{P. Xu} [Duke Math. J. 73, 415-452 (1994; Zbl 0844.22005)] in the context of linearization of Poisson groupoids. The pair \(\left( A,A^{\ast }\right) \) of Lie algebroids on \(A\) and on the dual vector bundle \(A^{\ast}\) is said to be a Lie bialgebroid if the differential \(d_{A}\) is a derivation of the bracket \(\left[ \cdot,\cdot\right] _{A}.\) The author in [Courant algebroids, derived brackets and even symplectic supermanifolds, PhD thesis, UC Berkeley (1999); see also math.DG/9910078] developed an approach to the theory of Lie bialgebroids in terms of a pair of mutually commuting Hamiltonians on the symplectic supermanifold \(\mathcal{E}=T^{\ast}\Pi A\) (\(\Pi A\) is the supermanifold whose algebra of function is \(\Gamma\left( \wedge^{\bullet }A^{\ast}\right)\)). In the paper under review the author recalls the notion of Lie bialgebroid, defines a quasi-Lie bialgebroid structure on \(\left( A,A^{\ast}\right) \) and studies the phenomenon of twisting. Mainly he studies the action of the natural group of symmetries: canonical transformations of \(\mathcal{E}\) preserving the grading and particularly the subgroup \(\mathcal{G}\) that acts trivially on \(M\subset\mathcal{E}\). He obtained a factorization of \(\mathcal{G}\) similar to that used in the theory of Poisson-Lie groups. Finally, he applies the theory to two special cases: arbitrary bivector fields and twisted Poisson manifolds with a 3-form background.