Courant brackets on noncommutative algebras and omni-Lie algebras

DOI10.3836/TJM/1184963659MaRDI QIDQ2454946zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kyousuke Uchino

Publication date 22 October 2007

Published in Tokyo Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0604101, https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.tjm/1184963659

zbMATH Keywords

Courant bracketomni-Lie algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(Co)homology of rings and associative algebras (e.g., Hochschild, cyclic, dihedral, etc.) (16E40) Poisson algebras (17B63) Lie algebras and Lie superalgebras (17B99)

Abstract: We define a Courant bracket on an associative algebra using the theory of Hochschild homology, and we introduce the notion of Dirac algebra. We show that the bracket of an omni-Lie algebra is quite a kind of Courant bracket.

Review text

\textit{T. J. Courant} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 319, 631--661 (1990; Zbl 0850.70212] defined a certain bracket on the set of sections of the tangent bundle \(TM \oplus TM^*\) for a smooth manifold \(M\). In this paper, a similarly-looking bracket is defined in a purely algebraic situation, on the space \(E(A) = H^1(A,A) \oplus H_1(A,A)\), where \(H^1\), resp. \(H_1\), denotes the first Hochschild cohomology, resp. homology of an associative algebra \(A\). A canonical pairing between \(H^1(A,A)\) and \(H_1(A,A)\) induces a bilinear form on \(E(A)\), and the kernel of this form happens to be an ideal with respect to the Courant bracket. The quotient of \(E(A)\) by this ideal, with the induced Courant bracket on it, is called a Dirac structure on \(A\). In the case \(A = V \oplus K1\), where multiplication on \(V\) is trivial, the Dirac structure reduces to the \textit{A. Weinstein}'s omni-Lie algebra defined on the space \(gl(V) \oplus V\) [RIMS Kokyuroku 1176, 95--102 (2000; Zbl 1058.58503)]. It is proved that Dirac structures on any unital associative algebra \(A\) and the algebra of matrices of arbitrary size over \(A\) are isomorphic. Dirac structures are also connected with commutative and noncommutative Poisson structures.

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• Omni-Lie 2-algebras and their Dirac structures
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