Quantum groupoids and deformation quantization

The purpose of this Note is to unify quantum groups and star-products under a general umbrella: quantum groupoids. It is shown that a quantum groupoid naturally gives rise to a Lie bialgebroid as a classical limit. The converse question, i.e.. the quantization problem, is posed. In particular, any regular triangular Lie bialgebroid is shown quantizable. For the Lie bialgebroid of a Poisson manifold, its quantization is equivalent to a star-product.     

Reduction of Jacobi manifolds via Dirac structures theory

We first recall some basic definitions and facts about Jacobi manifolds, generalized Lie bialgebroids, generalized Courant algebroids and Dirac structures. We establish an one-one correspondence between reducible Dirac structures of the generalized Lie bialgebroid of a Jacobi manifold (M,Λ,E) for which 1 is an admissible function and Jacobi quotient manifolds of M. We study Jacobi reductions from the point of view of Dirac structures theory and we present some examples and applications.     

Modular classes of Loday algebroids

We introduce the concept of Loday algebroids, a generalization of Courant algebroids. We define the naive cohomology and modular class of a Loday algebroid, and we show that the modular class of the double of a Lie bialgebroid vanishes. For Courant algebroids, we describe the relation between the naive and standard cohomologies and we conjecture that they are isomorphic when the Courant algebroid is transitive. To cite this article: M. Stiénon, P. Xu, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 346 (2008).     

Relative modular classes of Lie algebroids

We study the relative modular classes of Lie algebroids, and we determine their relationship with the modular classes of Lie algebroids with a twisted Poisson structure. To cite this article: Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach, A. Weinstein, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. I 341 (2005).     

Nijenhuis structures on Courant algebroids

We study Nijenhuis structures on Courant algebroids in terms of the canonical Poisson bracket on their symplectic realizations. We prove that the Nijenhuis torsion of a skew-symmetric endomorphism N of a Courant algebroid is skewsymmetric if N ² is proportional to the identity, and only in this case when the Courant algebroid is irreducible. We derive a necessary and sufficient condition for a skewsymmetric endomorphism to give rise to a deformed Courant structure. In the case of the double of a Lie bialgebroid (A, A*), given an endomorphism N of A that defines a skew-symmetric endomorphism N of the double of A, we prove that the torsion ofN is the sum of the torsion of N and that of the transpose of N.     

Exact Gerstenhaber algebras and Lie bialgebroids

We show that to any Poisson manifold and, more generally, to any triangular Lie bialgebroid in the sense of Mackenzie and Xu, there correspond two differential Gerstenhaber algebras in duality, one of which is canonically equipped with an operator generating the graded Lie algebra bracket, i.e. with the structure of a Batalin-Vilkovisky algebra.     

李群的余切丛上的两种辛群胚结构

本文研究了李群的余切丛上的辛群胚结构.利用李代数胚的对偶丛上有自然诱导的泊松结构,.构造出了同一余切丛上的不同的辛群胚结构,推广了辛群胚的性质.     

On characterization of Poisson and Jacobi structures

We characterize Poisson and Jacobi structures by means of complete lifts of the corresponding tensors: the lifts have to be related to canonical structures by morphisms of corresponding vector bundles. Similar results hold for generalized Poisson and Jacobi structures (canonical structures) associated with Lie algebroids and Jacobi algebroids.     

Homological sections of Lie algebroids

We examine Lie (super)algebroids equipped with a homological section, i.e., an odd section that ‘self-commutes’, we refer to such Lie algebroids as inner Q-algebroids: these provide natural examples of suitably “superised” Q-algebroids in the sense of Mehta. Such Lie algebroids are a natural generalisation of Q-manifolds and Lie superalgebras equipped with a homological element. Amongst other results, we show that, via the derived bracket formalism, the space of sections of an inner Q-algebroid comes equipped with an odd Loday–Leibniz bracket.     

Dirac structures on protobialgebroids

Protobialgebroids include several kinds of algebroid structures such as Lie algebroid, Lie bialgebroid, Lie quasi-bialgebroid, etc. In this paper, the Dirac theories are generalized from Lie bialgebroid to protobialgebroid. We give the integrable conditions for a maximally isotropic subbundle being a Dirac structure for a protobialgebroid by the notion of a characteristic pair. From the integrable conditions, we found out that the Dirac structure has closed relations with the twisting of a protobialgebroid. At last, some special cases of the Dirac structures for protobialgebroids are discussed.     

Classification of homogeneous almost cosymplectic three-manifolds

The purpose of this paper is to classify all simply connected homogeneous almost cosymplectic three-manifolds. We show that each such three-manifold is either a Lie group G equipped with a left invariant almost cosymplectic structure or a Riemannian product of type R×N, where N is a Kähler surface of constant curvature. Moreover, we find that the Reeb vector field of any homogeneous almost cosymplectic three-manifold, except one case, defines a harmonic map.     

Inequalities from Poisson brackets

We introduce the notion of tropicalization for Poisson structures on ${\mathbb{R}}^n$ with coefficients in Laurent polynomials. To such a Poisson structure we associate a polyhedral cone and a constant Poisson bracket on this cone. There is a version of this formalism applicable to ${\mathbb{C}}^n$ viewed as a real Poisson manifold. In this case, the tropicalization gives rise to a completely integrable system with action variables taking values in a polyhedral cone and angle variables spanning a torus.As an example, we consider the canonical Poisson bracket on the dual Poisson–Lie group $G^1$ for $G=U\left(n\right)$ in the cluster coordinates of Fomin–Zelevinsky defined by a certain choice of solid minors. We prove that the corresponding integrable system is isomorphic to the Gelfand–Zeitlin completely integrable system of Guillemin–Sternberg and Flaschka–Ratiu.     

Lie Brackets on Affine Bundles

Natural affine analogs of Lie brackets on affine bundles are studied.In particular, a close relation to Lie algebroids and a duality withcertain affine analog of Poisson structure is established as well asaffine versions of complete lifts and Cartan exterior calculi.     

Foliated Lie and Courant Algebroids

If A is a Lie algebroid over a foliated manifold (M, F){(M, {\mathcal {F}})}, a foliation of A is a Lie subalgebroid B with anchor image TF{T{\mathcal {F}}} and such that A/B is locally equivalent with Lie algebroids over the slice manifolds of F{\mathcal F}. We give several examples and, for foliated Lie algebroids, we discuss the following subjects: the dual Poisson structure and Vaintrob's supervector field, cohomology and deformations of the foliation, integration to a Lie groupoid. In the last section, we define a corresponding notion of a foliation of a Courant algebroid A as a bracket–closed, isotropic subbundle B with anchor image TF{T{\mathcal {F}}} and such that B ^{^} /B{B^{ \bot } /B} is locally equivalent with Courant algebroids over the slice manifolds of F{\mathcal F}. Examples that motivate the definition are given.     

Elliptic hydrodynamics and quadratic algebras of vector fields on a torus

We construct a quadratic Poisson algebra of Hamiltonian functions on a two-dimensional torus compatible with the canonical Poisson structure. This algebra is an infinite-dimensional generalization of the classical Sklyanin-Feigin-Odesskii algebras. It yields an integrable modification of the two-dimensional hydrodynamics of an ideal fluid on the torus. The Hamiltonian of the standard two-dimensional hydrodynamics is defined by the Laplace operator and thus depends on the metric. We replace the Laplace operator with a pseudodifferential elliptic operator depending on the complex structure. The new Hamiltonian becomes a member of a commutative bi-Hamiltonian hierarchy. In conclusion, we construct a Lie bialgebroid of vector fields on the torus. __________ Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Matematicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 150, No. 3, pp. 355–370, March, 2007.     

Almost contact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic section

We investigate almost contact metric manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic unit vector field, equivalently a harmonic section. We first consider an arbitrary Riemannian manifold and characterize the harmonicity of a unit vector field ??, when ??? is symmetric, in terms of Ricci curvature. Then, we show that for the class of locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds whose Reeb vector field ?? is geodesic, ?? is a harmonic section if and only if it is an eigenvector of the Ricci operator. Moreover, we build a large class of locally conformal almost cosymplectic manifolds whose Reeb vector field is a harmonic section. Finally, we exhibit several classes of almost contact metric manifolds where the associated almost contact metric structures ?? are harmonic sections, in the sense of Vergara-Diaz and Wood?[25], and in some cases they are also harmonic maps.     

Lie algebroid structures on double vector bundles and representation theory of Lie algebroids

A VB-algebroid is essentially defined as a Lie algebroid object in the category of vector bundles. There is a one-to-one correspondence between VB-algebroids and certain flat Lie algebroid superconnections, up to a natural notion of equivalence. In this setting, we are able to construct characteristic classes, which in special cases reproduce characteristic classes constructed by Crainic and Fernandes. We give a complete classification of regular VB-algebroids, and in the process we obtain another characteristic class of Lie algebroids that does not appear in the ordinary representation theory of Lie algebroids.     

Locally Vacant Double Lie Groupoids and the Integration of Matched Pairs of Lie Algebroids

We prove a general integrability result for matched pairs of Lie algebroids. (Matched pairs of Lie algebras are also known as double Lie algebras or twilled extensions of Lie algebras.) The method used is an extension of a method introduced by Lu and Weinstein in the case of Poisson Lie groups, and yields double groupoids which satisfy an étale form of the vacancy condition.