Jacobi structure revisited

Abstract: Jacobi algebroids, that is graded Lie brackets on the Grassmann algebra associated with a vector bundle which satisfy a property similar to that of the Jacobi brackets, are introduced. They turn out to be equivalent to generalized Lie algebroids in the sense of Iglesias and Marrero and can be viewed also as odd Jacobi brackets on the supermanifolds associated with the vector bundles. Jacobi bialgebroids are defined in the same manner. A lifting procedure of elements of this Grassmann algebra to multivector fields on the total space of the vector bundle which preserves the corresponding brackets is developed. This gives the possibility of associating canonically a Lie algebroid with any local Lie algebra in the sense of Kirillov.

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The authors introduce notions of Jacobi algebroids and Jacobi bialgebroids, which turn out to be equivalent to objects already studied by \textit{D. Iglesias} and \textit{J. C. Marrero} in [J. Geom. Phys. 40, No. 2, 176-199 (2001; Zbl 1001.17025)]. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe paper results from an attempt to understand the Lie algebroid structure on \(T^{\ast}M\oplus_{M} \mathbb R\) usually associated with a Jacobi structure on a manifold \(M\). Since a Jacobi bracket is just a Lie bracket on \(V=C^{\infty}(M)\) given by a bilinear first order differential operator, the authors begin with studying the structure of the algebra \({\mathcal A}\text{Diff}_{1}(V)\) of skew-linear first order differential operators on \(V\), endowed with the Richardson-Nijenhuis bracket. The resulting algebra is a Gerstenhaber algebra, but with a graded bracket satisfying NEWLINE\[NEWLINE[X,Y\wedge Z]=[X,Y]\wedge Z+(-1)^{|X|(|Y|+1)}Y\wedge [X,Z]- \widetilde{D}(X)\wedge Y\wedge ZNEWLINE\]NEWLINE where \(\widetilde{D}\) is a graded linear map of degree -1, instead of the Leibniz rule. Such algebras, are called Gerstenhaber-Jacobi algebras. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIt is already known that Schouten-Nijenhuis algebras i.e. Gerstenhaber structures on the Grassmann algebra \({\mathcal A}(L)\) associated with a vector bundle \(L\) are in one to one correspondence with Lie algebroids (see the paper of \textit{Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach} [Acta Appl. Math. 41, 153-165 (1995; Zbl 0837.17014)]). In view of this identification, the authors define the Jacobi-algebroids as Schouten-Jacobi algebras, i.e Gerstenhaber-Jacobi algebras on \({\mathcal A}(L)\). They then prove that this notion is equivalent to the notion of a Lie algebroid with the presence of a 1-cocycle as defined by Iglesias and Marrero.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEIn the last sections, the authors develop a lifting procedure which transports the Schouten-Jacobi bracket on \({\mathcal A}(L)\) into the Schouten bracket of multivector fields on the total space \(L\). The main result here is a natural construction associating a Lie algebroid with any local Lie algebra in the sense of Kirillov.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEFinally, it is shown that a consistent notion of a Jacobi bialgebroid can be obtained just by imitating the classical definition of a Lie bialgebroid. This notion reduces exactly to the notion of a generalized Lie bialgebroid given by Iglesias and Marrero, it has the advantage to be introduced in a more natural way.

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