Polynomial structures in generalized geometry (Q2168655)

Let \(M\) be a smooth manifold. If the usual differential geometry of \(M\) involves separately the tangent bundle \(TM\) and the cotangent bundle \(T^{\ast}M\), the new theory presented here, called \textit{generalized geometry}, is based on the \textit{generalized tangent bundle} \(\mathbb{T}M:=TM\oplus T^{\ast}M\). The aim of this paper is to study the analogues of classical polynomial structures (almost tangent, almost product, almost complex, metallic and others) in the setting of the generalized geometry. The main result is that given a generalized polynomial structure \(\varphi \), the complexified tangent bundle \(\mathbb{T}M\otimes \mathbb{C}\) splits into the direct sum of generalized eigenbundles \(L_{\lambda}\) of \(\varphi \). Moreover, each \(L_{\lambda}\) is an isotropic eigenbundle and for each non-zero \(\lambda \) the restriction of the tautological inner product to \(E_{\lambda}:=L_{\lambda}\oplus L_{-\lambda}\) is non-degenerate. It follows that every generalized polynomial structure admits a Jordan-Chevalley decomposition into its semisimple and nilpotent parts, both of which are also generalized polynomial structures.