Nondegenerate cohomology pairing for transitive Lie algebroids, characterization (Q867337)

The Evans-Lu-Weinstein representation for a Lie algebroid on a manifold \(M\) is studied in the transitive case. To consider at the same time non-oriented manifolds as well, this representation is slightly modified to the representation obtained by tensoring with the orientation flat line bundle. It is shown that the induced cohomology pairing is nondegenerate and this last representation is the unique (up to isomorphisms) line representation for which the top group of the compactly supported cohomology is nontrivial. The case of the trivial algebroid \(TM\) is also studied. Finally, the characterization of transitive Lie algebroids for which the Lie algebroid cohomology with trivial coefficients (or with coefficients in the orientation flat line bundle) gives Poincare duality is obtained. The proofs use the Hochschild-Serre spectral sequence and the general fact concerning pairings between graded filtered differential \(\mathbb R\)-vector spaces is shown: assuming that the second terms live in the finite rectangular, nondegeneration of the pairing for the second terms implies the same for cohomology sequences.