Riemannian geometry of Lie algebroids (Q450170)

The paper under review gives a self-contained survey of some basic results in the Riemannian geometry of Lie algebroids. To this end, one first provides a gentle introduction to connections on Lie algebroids. This allows one to study the Levi-Civita connection on a Riemannian Lie algebroid. The geodesic flow and the curvature are also discussed and some classical results are generalized to this setting. Finally, one uses some tools of Riemannian geometry, namely the suitable versions of the O'Neill tensors, for establishing that the vanishing of one of these tensors ensures that the Lie algebroid under consideration is integrable. As an application, one proves that the cotangent Lie algebroid of a Riemann-Poisson manifold is always integrable.