Fibrations and log-symplectic structures (Q2272470)

A log-symplectic structure is a Poisson structure \(\pi\) on a \(2n\)-dimensional manifold \(X\) such that \(\wedge^n\pi\) is transverse to the zero section of \(\wedge^{2n} \,T X\). Such Poisson structures also appear in the literature under the names \(b\)-Poisson and \(b\)-symplectic structures. Log-symplectic structures are Poisson structures that are ``very close to being symplectic'': If \(\wedge^n\pi\) is nowhere vanishing, then it can be inverted to obtain a symplectic form. The transversality condition means that instead of \(\pi\) being invertible it drops rank on (at most) a codimension one submanifold \(Z_\pi :=(\wedge^n\pi)^{-1}(0)\). One can use \(Z_\pi\) to define a Lie algebroid \(^b T X\), known as the \(b\)-tangent bundle. Log-symplectic structures turn out to be symplectic structures for the \(b\)-tangent bundle (see the paper and references therein for details). Due to this fact, many of the tools and ideas from symplectic geometry can be generalised to log-symplectic geometry. In the paper under review, the authors use the formulation of log-symplectic geometry in terms of the \(b\)-tangent bundle to extend the results from symplectic geometry on fibration-like maps to the log-symplectic case.