Pseudo-Dirac structures (Q743984)

A Dirac structure is a Lagrangian subbundle of a Courant algebroid, \(L \subset \mathbb{E}\), which is involutive with respect to the Courant bracket. In particular, \(L\) inherits the structure of a Lie algebroid. In this paper, a notion of pseudo-Dirac structure is introduced as an arbitrary subbundle, \(W \subset \mathbb{E}\), together with a pseudo-connection on its sections, satisfying a natural integrability condition. As a consequence of the definition, \(W\) is an Lie algebroid. Novel examples of pseudo-Dirac structures arise in the context of quasi-Poisson geometry, Lie theory, generalized Kähler geometry, and Dirac Lie groups, among others. Despite their greater generality, it is shown that pseudo-Dirac structures share many of the key features of Dirac structures.