L_-algebras from multicontact geometry

DOI10.1016/J.DIFGEO.2015.01.006MaRDI QIDQ490692zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Luca Vitagliano

Publication date 27 August 2015

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

contact geometryhigher geometryjetsmultisymplectic geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

Review text

The author defines higher-codimensional versions of contact structures on manifolds (called multicontact structures) as maximally non-integrable distributions. More generally, he defines higher-codimensional versions of pre-contact structures (called pre-multicontact structures) as distributions on manifolds whose characteristic symmetries span a constant-dimensional distribution. 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, he associates 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. Finally, he describes in local coordinates the \(L_\infty\)-algebra associated to the Cartan distribution on jet spaces.

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