Note on pre-Courant algebroid structures for parabolic geometries

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Authors: Stuart Armstrong 

Publication date: 6 September 2007

Abstract: This note aims to demonstrate that every parabolic geometry has a naturally defined per-Courant algebro"id structure. This structure is a Courant algebro"id if and only if the the curvature $kappa$ of the Cartan connection vanishes. In all other cases, if the parabolic geometry is regular, there does not exist a natural universal expression for a Courant bracket.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30) Invariance and symmetry properties for PDEs on manifolds (58J70) Twistor methods in differential geometry (53C28)

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