Picard groups of Poisson manifolds

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Abstract: For a Poisson manifold M we develop systematic methods to compute its Picard group Pic(M), i.e., its group of self Morita equivalences. We establish a precise relationship between Pic(M) and the group of gauge transformations up to Poisson diffeomorphisms showing, in particular, that their connected components of the identity coincide; this allows us to introduce the Picard Lie algebra of M and to study its basic properties. Our methods lead, in particular, to the proof of a conjecture from [BW04] stating that for any compact simple Lie algebra mathfrakg the group Pic(mathfrakg∗) concides with the group of outer automorphisms of mathfrakg.


This paper gives systematic methods to compute the Picard group of a Poisson manifold. Let us recall that the notion of Picard group for an integrable Poisson manifold has been introduced by the first author and \textit{A. Weinstein} [Mosc. Math. J. 4, No. 1, 39--66 (2004; Zbl 1068.53055)]. In this work, the authors first recall the basic notions and study explicit examples. Then they etablish a link between the Picard group and the group of gauge transformations up to Poisson diffeomorphisms. They also prove a conjecture of \textit{A. S. Cattaneo} and \textit{G. Felder} [Prog. Math. 198, 61--93 (2001; Zbl 1038.53074)], stating that the Picard group corresponding to a compact simple Lie algebra \(\mathfrak {g}\) agrees with the group of outer automorphisms of \(\mathfrak{g}\).











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