On LA-Courant algebroids and Poisson Lie 2-algebroids

DOI10.1007/S11040-020-09355-1MaRDI QIDQ2007194zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 12 October 2020

Published in Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.04842

zbMATH Keywords

Courant algebroidsdouble vector bundlesLie algebroidsPoisson and symplectic structurespositively graded manifoldsrepresentations up to homotopy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson algebras (17B63) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Pseudogroups, differentiable groupoids and general structures on manifolds (58H99) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Abstract: This paper provides an alternative, much simpler, definition for Li-Bland's LA-Courant algebroids, or Poisson Lie 2-algebroids, in terms of split Lie 2-algebroids and self-dual 2-representations. This definition generalises in a precise sense the characterisation of (decomposed) double Lie algebroids via matched pairs of 2-representations. We use the known geometric examples of LA-Courant algebroids in order to provide new examples of Poisson Lie 2-algebroids, and we explain in this general context Roytenberg's equivalence of Courant algebroids with symplectic Lie 2-algebroids. We study further the core of an LA-Courant algebroid and we prove that it carries an induced degenerate Courant algebroid structure. In the nondegenerate case, this gives a new construction of a Courant algebroid from the corresponding symplectic Lie 2-algebroid. Finally we completely characterise VB-Dirac and LA-Dirac structures via simpler objects, that we compare to Li-Bland's pseudo-Dirac structures.

Review text

T.J. Courant discovered a skew-symmetric Lie bracket on \(TM \oplus T^* M\). The more general structure of a Courant algebroid, links the study of constrained Hamiltonian systems with generalised complex geometry. They were studied extensively throughout the 1990s by Zhang-Ju Liu, Alan Weinstein and Ping Xu, as well as Severa and Roytenberg. The associated integrability problem is an open question to this day. To this end, it is important to understand better these structures. Courant algebroids are ``higher geometric structures. This can be made precise in the following ways: Roytenberg and Severa (independently) understood them in a graded sense, namely they described them as symplectic Lie 2-algebroids. On the other hand, Courant's example fits into \textit{K. C. H. Mackenzie}'s study of multiple structures, in particular it is an example of a double Lie algebroid [J. Reine Angew. Math. 658, 193--245 (2011; Zbl 1246.53112)]. \textit{D. Li-Bland} in his PhD thesis [LA-Courant algebroids and their applications. \url{arXiv:1204.2796}] introduced a more general class of Courant algebroids (LA-Courant algebroids) which are Courant algebroid structures in the category of vector bundles. They too fit in the multiple structures studied by Mackenzie. The paper under review studies the correspondence between LA-Courant algebroids and Poisson Lie 2-algebroids (the latter generalize symplectic Lie 2-algebroids), using the author's earlier results on split Lie 2-algebroids and self-dual 2-representations.

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