Queer Poisson brackets

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Abstract: We give a method to construct Poisson brackets cdot,cdot on Banach manifolds~M, for which the value of f,g at some point minM may depend on higher order derivatives of the smooth functions f,gcolonMomathbbR, and not only on the first-order derivatives, as it is the case on all finite-dimensional manifolds. We discuss specific examples in this connection, as well as the impact on the earlier research on Poisson geometry of Banach manifolds. Those brackets are counterexamples to the claim that the Leibniz property for any Poisson bracket on a Banach manifold would imply the existence of a Poisson tensor for that bracket.


This paper studies the existence of concrete examples of infinite-dimensional Banach manifold \(M\) carrying the feature, different from finite-dimensional manifolds, that there is a Poisson bracket on \(C^{\infty}( M) \) which is not completely determined by the first-order derivatives of functions. The kinematic definition of a tangent vector \(v\in T_{m}M\) to a manifold \(M\) at a point \(m\in M\) as an equivalence class of curves passing through \(m\) and the operational definition of a tangent vector as a derivation \(\delta :C_{m}^{\infty}( M) \to\mathbb{R}\) on germs of smooth functions at \(m\) are well known to be equivalent when \(M\) is finite-dimensional, but not equivalent when \(M\) is an infinite-dimensional Banach manifold. An operational tangent vector \(\delta\) is said to be of order \(n\), if \(\delta f=\sum_{k=1}^{n}\ell_{k}( f_{m}^{( k) }) \) for some continuous linear functionals \(\ell_{k}\) on the Banach space \(L_{k}( T_{m}M;\mathbb{R}) \) of continuous \(k\)-linear functionals on \(T_{m}M\) such that \(\ell_{n}\) is nonzero on the subspace of continuous symmetric \(n\)-linear functionals on \(T_{m}M\). An operational tangent vector \(\delta\) is called queer if it is of order at least \(2\), and hence not completely determined by the first-order derivatives of functions. In a canonical way, the notion of an operational vector field on \(M\) which is smooth and pointwise an operational tangent vector is formulated. Pointing out that a linear functional \(\ell\in( L_{2}( E;\mathbb{R}) ) ^{\ast}\) for a Banach space \(E\) (over \(\mathbb{R}\)) defines an operational tangent vector \(\delta_{\ell} :f\mapsto\ell( f_{a}^{\prime\prime}) \) at \(a\in E\) if and only if \(\ell\) vanishes on the canonical image of \(E^{\ast}\times E^{\ast}\) in \(L_{2}( E;\mathbb{R}) \), the authors show that there are queer operational tangent vectors of order \(2\) on \(\ell^{p}\) with \(p\in[ 1,2] \), but no such tangent vectors exist on \(\ell^{p}\) with \(p\in( 2,\infty) \). With the Hilbert space \(\mathcal{H}=\ell^{2}\) (over \(\mathbb{R}\)) as an explicit example, they apply the Hahn-Banach Theorem to illustrate the existence of bounded linear functionals \(\ell\) on the Banach space \(L_{2}( \mathcal{H};\mathbb{R}) \cong( \mathcal{H} \otimes\mathcal{H}) ^{\ast}\cong L^{\infty}( \mathcal{H}) \) of all bounded linear operators on \(\mathcal{H}\) that extends the linear functional vanishing on the subspace \(\mathcal{H}^{\ast}\otimes\mathcal{H} ^{\ast}\cong\mathcal{K}( \mathcal{H}) \) of all compact operators with \(\ell( \mathrm{id}_{\mathcal{H}}) =1\), and consequently construct a queer operational tangent vector \(\delta_{\ell}\) of order \(2\). A Poisson bracket \(\{ ,\} \) on \(C^{\infty}( M) \) with restriction-compatible localizations \(\{ ,\} _{U}\) for open sets \(U\subset M\) is said to be of order \(1\) at \(m\in U\) if there exists a skew-symmetric continuous bilinear functional \(\Pi_{m}\) on \(T_{m}^{\ast}M\) such that \(\{ f,g\} _{U}( m) =\Pi_{m}( f_{m}^{\prime},g_{m}^{\prime}) \) for all \(f,g\in C^{\infty}( U) \), and to be queer at \(m\in U\) if otherwise. It is shown that two commuting operational vector fields \(\delta,\gamma\) define a Poisson bracket with localizations given by \(\{ f,g\} _{U}:=( \delta _{U}f) ( \gamma_{U}g) -( \gamma_{U}f) ( \delta_{U}g) \) on open sets \(U\subset M\). Furthermore if \(\delta ,\gamma\) are linearly independent at some \(m\in M\), then \(\{ ,\} \) is queer at \(m\) if and only if one of \(\delta,\gamma\) is queer at \(m\). Consequently, there exists queer Poisson brackets on \(\ell^{p}\) for \(p\in[ 1,2] \). More explicitly, a concrete example is given on \(\ell^{2}\cong\ell^{2}\times\mathbb{R}\) by the commuting operational vector fields: the constant queer vector field \(\delta_{\ell}\) described earlier on the first component \(\ell^{2}\equiv\mathcal{H}\) and the constant vector field \(\frac{\partial}{\partial x}\) on the second component \(\mathbb{R}\).











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