Q-manifolds and Mackenzie theory: an overview

arXiv0709.4232MaRDI QIDQ6206927FDOQ6206927

Publication date: 26 September 2007

Abstract: This text is meant to be a brief overview of the topics announced in the title and is based on my talk in Vienna (August/September 2007). It does not contain new results (except probably for a remark concerning Q-manifold homology, which I wish to elaborate elsewhere). "Mackenzie theory" stands for the rich circle of notions that have been put forward by Kirill Mackenzie (solo or in collaboration): double structures such as double Lie groupoids and double Lie algebroids, Lie bialgebroids and their doubles, nontrivial dualities for double and multiple vector bundles, etc. "Q-manifolds" are (super)manifolds with a homological vector field, i.e., a self-commuting odd vector field. They may have an extra Z-grading (called weight) not necessarily linked with the Z_2-grading (parity). I discuss double Lie algebroids (discovered by Mackenzie) and explain how this quite complicated fundamental notion is equivalent to a very simple one if the language of Q-manifolds is used. In particular, it shows how the two seemingly different notions of a "Drinfeld double" of a Lie bialgebroid due to Mackenzie and Roytenberg respectively, turn out to be the same thing if properly understood.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras (17B62) Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Lie algebras of vector fields and related (super) algebras (17B66) Pseudogroups and differentiable groupoids (58H05) Supermanifolds and graded manifolds (58A50) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50)

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