L_-algebras from multicontact geometry

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.01.006zbMATH Open1330.53106arXiv1311.2751OpenAlexW3099251794WikidataQ115356045 ScholiaQ115356045MaRDI QIDQ490692FDOQ490692

Luca Vitagliano

Publication date: 27 August 2015

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I define higher codimensional versions of contact structures on manifolds as maximally non-integrable distributions. I call them multicontact structures. Cartan distributions on jet spaces provide canonical examples. More generally, I define higher codimensional versions of pre-contact structures as distributions on manifolds whose characteristic symmetries span a constant dimensional distribution. I call them pre-multicontact structures. Every distribution is almost everywhere, locally, a pre-multicontact structure. After showing that the standard symplectization of contact manifolds generalizes naturally to a (pre-)multisymplectization of (pre-)multicontact manifolds, I make use of results by C. Rogers and M. Zambon to associate a canonical $L_{infty}$-algebra to any (pre-)multicontact structure. Such $L_{infty}$-algebra is a multicontact version of the Jacobi bracket on a contact manifold. However, unlike the multisymplectic $L_{i}nfty$-algebra of Rogers and Zambon, the multicontact $L_{i}nfty$-algebra is always a homological resolution of a Lie algebra. Finally, I describe in local coordinates the $L_{infty}$-algebra associated to the Cartan distribution on jet spaces.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.2751

Recommendations

• \(L _{\infty }\)-algebras from multisymplectic geometry
• The deformation \(L_\infty\) algebra of a Dirac-Jacobi structure
• Contact Courant algebroids and \(L_\infty\)-algebras
• \(L_\infty \)-algebras and higher analogues of Dirac sturctures and Courant algebroids
• From \(L_{\infty }\)-algebroids to higher Schouten/Poisson structures

zbMATH Keywords

jetscontact geometrymultisymplectic geometryhigher geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological methods in Lie (super)algebras (17B55) Symplectic manifolds (general theory) (53D05) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Jets in global analysis (58A20) Pfaffian systems (58A17)

Cited In (8)

• Higher nonabelian omni-Lie algebroids
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Rigidity of integral coisotropic submanifolds of contact manifolds
• Contact Lie systems: theory and applications
• Multicontact formulation for non-conservative field theories
• Kirillov structures up to homotopy
• Higher omni-Lie algebroids
• The \(L_\infty \)-algebra of a symplectic manifold

This page was built for publication: \(L_\infty\)-algebras from multicontact geometry

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q490692)