Generalized Sasakian structures from a Poisson geometry viewpoint (Q6174790)

The author first recalls some notions of generalized geometric structures, including generalized (almost) complex, generalized (almost) contact, generalized (co)Kähler, and so on. Then extending the study of generalized complex geometry in [\textit{M. Abouzaid} and \textit{M. Boyarchenko}, J. Symplectic Geom. 4, No. 1, 43--62 (2006; Zbl 1116.53055)], the author shows that for any strong generalized contact structure \((M,\Phi ,E_{+},E_{-})\) with a vanishing Courant bracket \(\left[ \left[ E_{+},E_{-}\right] \right] =0\), there is an underlying canonical Poisson structure. A notion of generalized Sasakian space, covering the classical Sasakian spaces, is proposed as a normal generalized contact metric space \((M,\Phi,E_{+},E_{-},G)\) with its canonical Poisson structure satisfying an invertibility condition. It is shown that generalized Sasakian spaces are all different from generalized coKähler spaces. Furthermore, similar to a known fact about Sasakian spaces, the product of two generalized Sasakian spaces need not be a generalized Kähler structure, unless one of them has a zero Poisson structure.