QP-structures of degree 3 and CLWX 2-algebroids

DOI10.4310/JSG.2019.V17.N6.A8MaRDI QIDQ2287434zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jiefeng Liu, Yunhe Sheng

Publication date 20 January 2020

Published in The Journal of Symplectic Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.01127

zbMATH Keywords

CLWX 2-algebroidCourant algebroidLie 2-algebroidQP-manifoldsplit Lie 2-bialgebroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17)

Abstract: In this paper, we give the notion of a CLWX 2-algebroid and show that a QP-structure of degree 3 gives rise to a CLWX 2-algebroid. This is the higher analogue of the result that a QP-structure of degree 2 gives rise to a Courant algebroid. A CLWX 2-algebroid can also be viewed as a categorified Courant algebroid. We show that one can obtain a Lie 3-algebra from a CLWX 2-algebroid. Furthermore, CLWX 2-algebroids are constructed from split Lie 2-algebroids and split Lie 2-bialgebroids.

Review text

As the authors write in the article, ``this paper is motivated by the following questions: \begin{itemize} \item[1.] A QP-structure of degree 2 gives rise to a Courant algebroid. What is the geometric structure underlying a QP-structure of degree 3? \item[2.] What is a categorified Courant algebroid? Or, equivalently, what is the \(L_\infty\)-analogue of a Courant algebroid? \item[3.] Split Lie 2-algebroids have become a useful tool to study problems related to NQ-manifolds. What is a split Lie 2-bialgebroid? What is the double of a split Lie 2-bialgebroid? \end{itemize} In Section 2, QP-manifolds, Courant algebroids, Lie \(n\)-algebras, Leibniz 2-algebras and Lie 2-algebroids are recalled and some of their properties are pointed out. In Section 3, a CLWX 2-algebroid is defined. Some of its properties are studied. The transformation CLWX 2-algebroid, from a quadratic Lie 2-algebra action on a manifold, is constructed. In the main result of this section it is proved that a CLWX 2-algebroid gives rise to a Lie 3-algebra. In Section 4, a construction of a CLWX 2-algebroid from a split Lie 2-algebroid is presented. A useful example is given. In Section 5, it is shown that the degree 3 QP-manifold \(T^*[3]A[1]\) gives rise to a CLWX 2-algebroid through the derived bracket. In Section 6, the notion of a split Lie 2-bialgebroid is introduced. Moreover, it is proved that there is a CLWX 2-algebroid structure associated to any split Lie 2-bialgebroid.

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