Courant algebroids. A short history

DOI10.3842/SIGMA.2013.014MaRDI QIDQ352471zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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 bracketDirac structuredorfman bracketgeneralized geometryLeibniz algebraLie algebroidLie bialgebroidloday algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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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