The existence of a canonical lifting of even Poisson structures to the algebra of densities

DOI10.1007/S11005-014-0726-XMaRDI QIDQ479694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adam Biggs

Publication date 5 December 2014

Published in Letters in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.1696

zbMATH Keywords

cotangent bundleproper Lie groupoidsrepresentation up to homotopysupermanifold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Topological groupoids (including differentiable and Lie groupoids) (22A22) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Geometric structures on manifolds of high or arbitrary dimension (57N16) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45)

Abstract: In this note we construct a canonical lifting of arbitrary Poisson structures on a manifold to its algbera of densities. Using this construction we proceed to classify all extensions of a fixed structure on the original manifold to its algebra of densities. The question is analogous to the problem studied by H.M.Khudaverdian and Th.Voronov for odd Poisson structures and differential operators. Although the questions are similar the results are distinctly marked, namely in the case of even Poisson structures there always exists a lift which is naturally defined. The proof of this result bears a remarkable resemblance to the construction of the Frolicher-Nijenhuis bracket.

Review text

This note is an ``even counterpart of work of H. M. Khudaverdian and T. Voronov on odd Poisson structures. Given a supermanifold \(M\), there is an associated algebra of densities \(\mathcal{F}(M)\), which is identified with the functions on a space \(\widehat{M}\). There exists a canonical surjection \[ C^{\infty}(\Pi T^*\widehat{M})\to C^{\infty}(\Pi T^*{M})\otimes \mathcal{F}^{\lambda}(M), \] where \(\Pi T^*{M}\) denotes the supermanifold obtained from the cotangent bundle \(T^*M\) by inverting the parity of the fibers (an odd symplectic manifold), and \(\mathcal{F}^{\lambda}(M)\) denotes the densities of weight \(\lambda\). It is shown in Theorem 3.2 that for \(\lambda\neq 1\) this map admits a canonical section preserving the odd Poisson bracket, which is constructed using a canonical differential operator obtained from the usual divergence operator. A consequence of this (seemingly taking \(\lambda=0\) above) is the following: given a Poisson \(r\)-ary bracket on \(M\) (this includes Poisson bivector fields on \(M\)) satisfying a degree constraint, one can lift it to a Poisson \(r\)-ary bracket on \(\widehat{M}\), and further all lifts are classified (Proposition 3.7). The author also analyzes why the above theorem fails in the case \(\lambda\neq 1\).

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