Omni-Lie algebroids (Q967484)

The notion of omni-Lie algebra was introduced by A. Weinstein by defining a certain algebraic structure on \(\text{gl}(V)\oplus V\) for a vector space \(V\). The purpose of this paper is to generalize the notion of omni-Lie algebra from a vector space to a vector bundle \(E\) in order to characterize all possible Lie algebroid structures on \(E\). More precisely, a generalized Courant algebroid structure is defined on the direct sum bundle \({\mathcal D}E\oplus{\mathcal J} E\), where \({\mathcal D}E\) and \({\mathcal J}E\) are, respectively, the gauge Lie algebroid and the jet bundle of a vector bundle \(E\). Such a structure is called an omni-Lie algebroid since it is reduced to the omni-Lie algebra introduced by A. Weinstein if the base manifold is a point. The authors prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between Dirac structures coming from bundle maps \({\mathcal J}E\rightarrow {\mathcal D}E\) and Lie algebroid (local Lie algebra) structures on \(E\) when \(\text{rank}(E)\geq 2\) (\(E\) is a line bundle) .