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.