Deformations of coisotropic submanifolds in Jacobi manifolds

arXiv1705.08962MaRDI QIDQ6287080FDOQ6287080

Authors: Alfonso Giuseppe Tortorella 

Publication date: 24 May 2017

Abstract: In this thesis, we study the deformation problem of coisotropic submanifolds in Jacobi manifolds. In particular we attach two algebraic invariants to any coisotropic submanifold $S$ in a Jacobi manifold, namely the $L_{i}nfty[1]$-algebra and the BFV-complex of $S$. Our construction generalizes and unifies analogous constructions in symplectic, Poisson, and locally conformal symplectic geometry. As a new special case we also attach an $L_{i}nfty[1]$-algebra and a BFV-complex to any coisotropic submanifold in a contact manifold. The $L_{i}nfty[1]$-algebra of $S$ controls the formal coisotropic deformation problem of $S$, even under Hamiltonian equivalence. The BFV-complex of $S$ controls the non-formal coisotropic deformation problem of $S$, even under both Hamiltonian and Jacobi equivalence. In view of these results, we exhibit, in the contact setting, two examples of coisotropic submanifolds whose coisotropic deformation problem is obstructed.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Differential graded algebras and applications (associative algebraic aspects) (16E45) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10)

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