Classical lifting processes and multiplicative vector fields (Q4397394)

The authors set out to investigate and apply to the geometry of Poisson groupoids the technique of the lifting and multiplicative vector fields on a groupoid \(G\) (over a manifold \(M\)) to vector fields on its Lie algebroid \(AG\) and its dual \(A^*G\). The lifting to \(AG\) is characterized in terms of the Lie algebroid structure of \(TAG\to TM\), the lifting to \(A^*G\) in terms of the Poisson structure on \(A^*G\). The process of the lifting of multiplicative forms on \(G\) to \(AG\) and \(A^* G\) is also considered (with applications to Poisson groupoids). This process of lifting of vector fields and differential forms is a considerable generalization of the classical one from a manifold \(M\) to its tangent and cotangent bundles, comprehensively described by \textit{K. Yano} and \textit{S. Ishihara} [`Tangent and cotangent bundles. Differential Geometry', (Pure and Applied Mathematics 16, Marcel Dekker, New York) (1973; Zbl 0262.53024)]. As an important application to the geometry of groupoids, the authors give a new description of the Poisson structure on the Lie algebroid of a Poisson groupoid and thus of the Lie algebroid structure on the dual. Some of the material of this work was announced by the first author in [J. Math. Inform., No. 4, Univ. Picardie, 30-49 (1992-93; per bibl.)].