Courant Algebroids and Strongly and Strongly Homotopy Lie Algebras

Courant algebroids are structures which include as examples the doubles of Lie bialgebras and the bundle TM T^*M with the bracket introduced by T. Courant for the study of Dirac structures. Within the category of Courant algebroids one can construct the doubles of Lie bialgebroids, the infinitesimal objects for Poisson groupoids. We show that Courant algebroids can be considered as strongly homotopy Lie algebras.     

Family symmetries and alignment in multi-Higgs doublet models

The exact alignment of the Yukawa structures on multi-Higgs doublet models provides cancellation of tree-level flavour changing couplings of neutral scalar fields. We show that family symmetries can provide a suitable justification for the Yukawa alignment.     

A Unified Approach to Poisson Reduction

Given any Poisson action G×PP of a Poisson–Lie group G we construct an object =T ^*G*T^* P which has both a Lie groupoid structure and a Lie algebroid structure and which is a half-integrated form of the matched pair of Lie algebroids which J.-H. Lu associated to a Poisson action in her development of Drinfeld's classification of Poisson homogeneous spaces. We use to give a general reduction procedure for Poisson group actions, which applies in cases where a moment map in the usual sense does not exist. The same method may be applied to actions of symplectic groupoids and, most generally, to actions of Poisson groupoids.     

Poisson structures on double Lie groups

Lie bialgebra structures are reviewed and investigated in terms of the double Lie algebra, of Manin- and Gauss-decompositions. The standard R-matrix in a Manin decomposition then gives rise to several Poisson structures on the correponding double group, which is investigated in great detail.     

Weak quantization of Poisson structures

In this paper we prove that any Poisson structure on a sheaf of Lie algebroids admits a weak deformation quantization, and give a sufficient condition for such a Poisson structure to admit an actual deformation quantization. We also answer the corresponding classification problems. In the complex symplectic case, we recover in particular some results of Nest-Tsygan and Polesello-Schapira.     

On the Integration of Poisson Manifolds,Lie Algebroids,and Coisotropic Submanifolds

In recent years, methods for the integration of Poisson manifolds and of Lie algebroids have been proposed, the latter being usually presented as a generalization of the former. In this Letter it is shown that the latter method is actually related to (and may be derived from) a particular case of the former if one regards dual of Lie algebroids as special Poisson manifolds. The core of the proof is the fact, discussed in the second part of this Letter, that coisotropic submanifolds of a (twisted) Poisson manifold are in one-to-one correspondence with possibly singular Lagrangian subgroupoids of source-simply-connected (twisted) symplectic groupoids.     

Continual Lie algebra bicomplexes and integrable models

We introduce bicomplex structures associated with Saveliev-Vershik continual Lie algebras, and derive non-linear dynamical systems resulting from the bicomplex conditions. Examples related to classes of continual Lie algebras, including contact Lie, Poisson bracket, and Hilbert-Cartan ones are discussed. Using the bicomplex linearization problem, we derive corresponding conservation laws. Presented at the International Colloquium “Integrable Systems and Quantum Symmetries”, Prague, 16–18 June 2005.     

Trigonometric Dynamical <Emphasis Type="Italic">r</Emphasis>-Matrices Over Poisson Lie Base

Let be a finite dimensional complex Lie algebra and a Lie subalgebra equipped with the structure of a factorizable quasitriangular Lie bialgebra. Consider the Lie group Exp with the Semenov-Tjan-Shansky Poisson bracket as a Poisson Lie manifold for the double Lie bialgebra . Let be an open domain parameterizing a neighborhood of the identity in Exp by the exponential map. We present dynamical r-matrices with values in over the Poisson Lie base manifold .*This research is partially supported by the Emmy Noether Research Institute for Mathematics, the Minerva Foundation of Germany, the Excellency Center Group Theoretic Methods in the study of Algebraic Varieties of the Israel Science foundation, and by the RFBR grant no. 03-01-00593.     

Partition functions for quantum gravity, black holes, elliptic genera and Lie algebra homologies

There is a remarkable connection between quantum generating functions of field theory and formal power series associated with dimensions of chains and homologies of suitable Lie algebras. We discuss the homological aspects of this connection with its applications to partition functions of the minimal three-dimensional gravities in the space-time asymptotic to AdS₃, which also describe the three-dimensional Euclidean black holes, the pure N=1 supergravity, and a sigma model on N-fold generalized symmetric products. We also consider in the same context elliptic genera of some supersymmetric sigma models. These examples can be considered as a straightforward application of the machinery of modular forms and spectral functions (with values in the congruence subgroup of SL(2,Z)) to partition functions represented by means of formal power series that encode Lie algebra properties.     

Relativity symmetries and Lie algebra contractions

We revisit the notion of possible relativity or kinematic symmetries mutually connected through Lie algebra contractions under a new perspective on what constitutes a relativity symmetry. Contractions of an SO(m,n)$SO(m,n)$ symmetry as an isometry on an m+n$m+n$ dimensional geometric arena which generalizes the notion of spacetime are discussed systematically. One of the key results is five different contractions of a Galilean-type symmetry G(m,n)$G(m,n)$ preserving a symmetry of the same type at dimension m+n−1$m+n-1$, e.g.   a G(m,n−1)$G(m,n-1)$, together with the coset space representations that correspond to the usual physical picture. Most of the results are explicitly illustrated through the example of symmetries obtained from the contraction of SO(2,4)$SO(2,4)$, which is the particular case for our interest on the physics side as the proposed relativity symmetry for “quantum spacetime”. The contractions from G(1,3)$G(1,3)$ may be relevant to real physics.     

Quasi-derivations and QD-algebroids

Axioms of Lie algebroid are discussed. In particular, it is shown that a Lie QD-algebroid (i.e. a Lie algebra bracket on the C∞(M)-module ? of sections of a vector bundle E over a manifold M which satisfies [X, ? Y] = ? [X, Y] + A (X, ?)Y for all X, Y ε ?, ? ε C∞(M), and for certain A (X, ?) ε C∞(M)) is a Lie algebroid if rank (E) > 1, and is a local Lie algebra in the sense of Kirillov if E is a line bundle. Under a weak condition also the skew-symmetry of the bracket is relaxed.     

Toda Equations, bi-Hamiltonian Systems, and Compatible Lie Algebroids

We present the bi-Hamiltonian structure of Toda₃, a dynamical system studied by Kupershmidt as a restriction of the discrete KP hierarchy. We derive this structure by a suitable reduction of the set of maps from Z_d to GL(3,R), in the framework of Lie algebroids.     

Some compatible Poisson structures and integrable bi-Hamiltonian systems on four dimensional and nilpotent six dimensional symplectic real Lie groups

We provide an alternative method for obtaining of compatible Poisson structures on Lie groups by means of the adjoint representations of Lie algebras. In this way we calculate some compatible Poisson structures on four dimensional and nilpotent six dimensional symplectic real Lie groups. Then using Magri-Morosi’s theorem we obtain new bi-Hamiltonian systems with four dimensional and nilpotent six dimensional symplectic real Lie groups as phase spaces.     

Linearization Problems for Lie Algebroids and Lie Groupoids

In this Letter, we discuss a series of linearization problems – for Poisson structures, Lie algebroids, and Lie groupoids. The last problem involves a conjecture on the structure of proper groupoids. Attempting to prove this by the method of averaging leads to problems concerning almost actions of compact groups and almost invariant submanifolds for compact group actions. The Letter ends with a discussion of possible extensions of the convexity theorems for momentum maps of hamiltonian actions of compact groups.     

Compatible Lie algebroids and the periodic Toda lattice

We give the set of maps from to the structure of a Poisson manifold endowed with a pair of compatible Lie algebroids. A suitable reduction process, of the Marsden–Ratiu type, yields a smaller manifold with the same geometrical properties as the original manifold. Moreover, is a bi-Hamiltonian manifold and the flows naturally defined on it are the periodic Toda flows.     

Lie symmetries and exact solutions for a short-wave model

In this paper, the Lie symmetry analysis and generalized symmetry method are performed for a short-wave model. The symmetries for this equation are given, and the phase portraits of the traveling wave systems are analyzed using the bifurcation theory of dynamical systems. The exact parametric representations of four types of traveling wave solutions are obtained.     

The Lie symmetries and Noether conserved quantities of discrete non-conservative mechanical systems

This paper investigates the Lie symmetries and Noether conserved quantities of discrete non-conservative mechanical systems. The variational principle of discrete mechanics, from which discrete motion equations of systems are deduced, is generalized to the case of including the time variational. The requirement for an invariant group transformation is defined to be the Lie symmetry and the criterion when the Noether conserved quantities may be obtained from Lie symmetries is also presented. An example is discussed for applications of the results.