Differential graded contact geometry and Jacobi structures (Q360404)

This paper deals with some close relations among four differential geometric structures -- symplectic, Poisson, contact, and Jacobi -- realizing some known conceptual relations in a new context involving \(\mathbb{N}Q\)-manifolds. Recall that parallel to the well-known contravariant generalization of the notion of symplectic structure to that of Poisson structure, Lichnerowicz formulated the notion of Jacobi structure, via a pair of a bivector field and a vector field, as a contravariant generalization of the notion of contact manifold. In general, a Jacobi manifold generates a Poisson manifold by Lichnerowicz's Poissonization process, and there is a parallel symplectization process generating a symplectic manifold from a contact manifold with a contact 1-form. On the other hand, parallel to the integration of a Poisson manifold into a symplectic groupoid as introduced by Coste, Dazord, and Weinstein, a Jacobi manifold in suitable cases can be integrated into a contact groupoid. In this paper, the author first gives a general study of a class of graded manifolds called contact \(\mathbb{N}Q\)-manifolds, and establishes a bijective correspondence between Jacobi manifolds and degree-1 contact \(\mathbb{N} Q\)-manifolds with fixed contact form, which parallels the bijective correspondence between Poisson manifolds and degree-1 symplectic \(\mathbb{N} Q\)-manifolds studied by Roytenberg. Then, replacing the above contexts of symplectic groupoids and contact groupoids by the contexts of degree-1 symplectic \(\mathbb{N}Q\)-manifolds and degree-1 contact \(\mathbb{N} Q\)-manifolds respectively and replacing the above integration procedures by these two bijections involving \(\mathbb{N}Q\)-manifolds, the author obtains a commuting square diagram involving the Poissonization process, the symplectization process, and these two bijections, connecting symplectic, Poisson, contact, and Jacobi structures.