Automorphisms of cotangent bundles of Lie groups

arXiv0811.2951MaRDI QIDQ6211679FDOQ6211679

Publication date: 18 November 2008

Abstract: Let G be a Lie group,

T^{*} G

its cotangent bundle with its natural Lie group structure obtained by performing a left trivialization of T^*G and endowing the resulting trivial bundle with the semi-direct product, using the coadjoint action of G on the dual space of its Lie algebra. We investigate the group of automorphisms of the Lie algebra of

T^{*} G

. More precisely, amongst other results, we fully characterize the space of all derivations of the Lie algebra of

T^{*} G

. As a byproduct, we also characterize some spaces of operators on G amongst which, the space J of bi-invariant tensors on G and prove that if G has a bi-invariant Riemannian or pseudo-Riemannian metric, then J is isomorphic to the space of linear maps from the Lie algebra of G to its dual space which are equivariant with respect to the adjoint and coadjoint actions, as well as that of bi-invariant bilinear forms on G. We discuss some open problems and possible applications.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Compact groups (22C05) General properties and structure of complex Lie groups (22E10) Lie algebras of Lie groups (22E60) General properties and structure of real Lie groups (22E15)

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