Dirac-Jacobi bundles (Q722388)

In this paper the Dirac-Jacobi geometry is developed. In Section 2 some aspects of differential geometry of line bundles, particularly the Atiyah (or gauge) algebroid of a vector bundle, are recalled. In Section 3 an alternative point of view on (pre)contact geometry is presented, namely that (pre)contact geometry can be obtained from (pre)symplectic geometry. Actually, Dirac-Jacobi geometry can be obtained from Dirac geometry replacing the tangent bundle with the Atiyah algebroid of a line bundle. In Section 4 the Dirac-Jacobi bundle is introduced, and some examples are discussed. In Section 5 characteristic foliations of a Dirac-Jacobi bundle are analyzed. In Section 6 the local structure of Dirac-Jacobi bundles is studied. Furthermore the transverse structures to characteristic leaves are discussed. In Section 7 the null distribution of a Dirac-Jacobi bundle is defined. It is shown that the null distribution can be quotiented out, and the quotient manifold is naturally equipped with a local Lie algebra with one-dimensional fibers. In Section 8 two different kinds of morphisms (backward, and forward morphisms) between Dirac-Jacobi bundles are defined. In Section 9 coisotropic submanifolds in manifolds equipped with a local Lie algebra structure are studied. Under suitable regularity conditions, a coisotropic submanifold inherits a Dirac-Jacobi structure. Conversely, under suitable regularity conditions, a Dirac-Jacobi bundle can be coisotropically embedded in a manifold equipped with a local Lie algebra with one-dimensional fibers. In Section 10 the integration of Dirac-Jacobi structures on line bundles using the language of Spencer operators is presented.