Multiplicative Connections and Their Lie Theory

DOI10.1142/S0219199721500929MaRDI QIDQ6353341arXivFDO

Authors Fabrizio Pugliese, Giovanni Sparano, Luca Vitagliano

Publication date 9 November 2020

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219199721500929

Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Complex supergeometry (32C11) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

arXiv classification

math.DG

Abstract: We define and study multiplicative connections in the tangent bundle of a Lie groupoid. Multiplicative connections are linear connections satisfying an appropriate compatibility with the groupoid structure. Our definition is natural in the sense that a linear connection on a Lie groupoid is multiplicative if and only if its torsion is a multiplicative tensor in the sense of Bursztyn-Drummond [5] and its geodesic spray is a multiplicative vector field. We identify the obstruction to the existence of a multiplicative connection. We also discuss the infinitesimal version of multiplicative connections in the tangent bundle, that we call infinitesimally multiplicative (IM) connections and we prove an integration theorem for IM connections. Finally, we present a few toy examples.

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