Poisson 2-groups

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Abstract: We prove a 2-categorical analogue of a classical result of Drinfeld: there is a one-to-one correspondence between connected, simply-connected Poisson Lie 2-groups and Lie 2-bialgebras. In fact, we also prove that there is a one-to-one correspondence between connected, simply connected quasi-Poisson 2-groups and quasi-Lie 2-bialgebras. Our approach relies on a "universal lifting theorem" for Lie 2-groups: an isomorphism between the graded Lie algebras of multiplicative polyvector fields on the Lie 2-group on one hand and of polydifferentials on the corresponding Lie 2-algebra on the other hand.


A Poisson group is a Lie group with a compatible Poisson structure. Lie \(2\)-groups are Lie group objects in the category of Lie groupoids. A Poisson \(2\)-group is a Lie \(2\)-group equipped with a Poisson structure on one of its Lie group structures (\(\Gamma_1\)), and which is multiplicative with respect to both the group and groupoid structures on \(\Gamma_1\). Lie \(2\)-algebras are Lie algebra objects in the category of Lie algebroids.NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors show that, at the infinitesimal level, Poisson \(2\)-groups induce Lie \(2\)-bialgebras. Theorem A. There is a one-to-one correspondence between connected, simply connected Poisson \(2\)-groups and Lie \(2\)-bialgebras.NEWLINENEWLINEA more general result can be obtained. Theorem B. There is a one-to-one correspondence between connected, simply connected quasi-Poisson \(2\)-groups and quasi-Lie \(2\)-bialgebras.NEWLINENEWLINEThe following ``universal lifting theorem is also obtained: Given a Lie \(2\)-group \(\Gamma_1 \rightrightarrows \Gamma_0\), if both \(\Gamma_1\) and \(\Gamma_0\) are connected and simply connected, then the graded Lie algebras \(\bigoplus_{k\geq 0}\mathcal{X}^k_{\mathrm{mult}}(\Gamma_1)\) and \(\bigoplus_{k\geq 0}\mathcal{A}_k\) are isomorphic.











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