Transitive Lie algebroids of rank 1 and locally conformal symplectic structures. (Q1874077)

The subject of this paper is Poincaré duality in the framework of Lie algebroid cohomology. This was first studied by \textit{S. Evens, J.-H. Lu} and \textit{A. Weinstein} [Q. J. Math., Oxf. II. Ser. 50, 417--436 (1999; Zbl 0968.58014)] (in the geometric setting) and by \textit{J. Huebschmann} [J. Reine Angew. Math. 510, 103--159 (1999; Zbl 1034.53083)] (in the algebraic setting). Unfortunately, the authors fail to acknowledge these works, and they develop an unnecessarily complicated set up, along the lines of one of the authors previous work [J. Geom. Phys. 46, 151--158 (2003; Zbl 1048.58014)]. Moreover, their methods only apply in the transitive case. The main result of the paper states that Poincaré duality holds for a transitive Lie algebroid, with trivial, rank one, adjoint bundle, over a compact, oriented, connected manifold if and only if the top Lie algebroid cohomology is non-zero.