Courant algebroids. A short history

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2013.014MaRDI QIDQ352471zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach

Publication date 4 July 2013

Published in SIGMA. Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.0559

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zbMATH Keywords

Courant algebroidderived bracketLie algebroidgeneralized geometryLeibniz algebraLie bialgebroidDirac structuredorfman bracketloday algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras (17B62) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Development of contemporary mathematics (01A65) History of differential geometry (53-03)

Abstract: The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Dirac led to the definition of the Courant bracket. The search for the right notion of a "double" for Lie bialgebroids led to the definition of Courant algebroids. We recount the emergence of these concepts.

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• Omni \(n\)-Lie algebras and linearization of higher analogues of Courant algebroids
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• The first Pontryagin class of a quadratic Lie 2-algebroid
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