Duality for Lie-Rinehart algebras and the modular class

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DOI10.1515/CRLL.1999.043zbMATH Open1034.53083arXivdg-ga/9702008OpenAlexW3132439718MaRDI QIDQ4243148FDOQ4243148


Authors: J. Huebschmann Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 16 May 1999

Published in: Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik (Crelles Journal) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a notion of duality for a Lie-Rinehart algebra giving certain bilinear pairings in its cohomology generalizing the usual notions of Poincar'e duality in Lie algebra cohomology and de Rham cohomology. We show that the duality isomorphisms can be given by a cap product with a suitable fundamental class and hence may be taken natural in any reasonable sense. Thereafter, for a Lie-Rinehart algebra satisfying duality, we introduce a certain intrinsic module which provides a crucial ingredient for the construction of the bilinear pairings. This module determines a certain class, called modular class of the Lie-Rinehart algebra, which lies in a certain Picard group generalizing the abelian group of flat line bundles on a smooth manifold. Finally, we show that a Poisson algebra having suitable properties determines a certain module for the corrresponding Lie-Rinehart algebra and hence modular class whose square yields the module and characteristic class for its Lie-Rinehart algebra mentioned before. In particular, this gives rise to certain bilinear pairings in Poisson homology.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/dg-ga/9702008




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