Lie bialgebra

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Manin Triples for Lie Bialgebroids

Abstract: In his study of Dirac structures, a notion which includes both Poisson structures and closed 2-forms, T. Courant introduced a bracket on the direct sum of vector fields and 1-forms. This bracket does not satisfy the Jacobi identity except on certain subspaces. In this paper we systematize the properties of this bracket in the definition of a Courant algebroid. This structure on a vector bundle $E\rightarrow M$, consists of an antisymmetric bracket on the sections of $E$ whose ``Jacobi anomaly'' has an explicit expression in terms of a bundle map $E\rightarrow TM$ and a field of symmetric bilinear forms on $E$. When $M$ is a point, the definition reduces to that of a Lie algebra carrying an invariant nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form. For any Lie bialgebroid $(A,A^{*})$ over $M$ (a notion defined by Mackenzie and Xu), there is a natural Courant algebroid structure on $A\oplus A^{*}$ which is the Drinfel'd double of a Lie bialgebra when $M$ is a point. Conversely, if $A$ and $A^*$ are complementary isotropic subbundles of a Courant algebroid $E$, closed under the bracket (such a bundle, with dimension half that of $E$, is called a Dirac structure), there is a natural Lie bialgebroid structure on $(A,A^{*})$ whose double is isomorphic to $E$. The theory of Manin triples is thereby extended from Lie algebras to Lie algebroids. Our work gives a new approach to bihamiltonian structures and a new way of combining two Poisson structures to obtain a third one. We also take some tentative steps toward generalizing Drinfel'd's theory of Poisson homogeneous spaces from groups to groupoids.

Manin Triples for Lie Bialgebroids

Abstract: In his study of Dirac structures, a notion which includes both Poisson structures and closed 2-forms, T. Courant introduced a bracket on the direct sum of vector fields and 1-forms. This bracket does not satisfy the Jacobi identity except on certain subspaces. In this paper we systematize the properties of this bracket in the definition of a Courant algebroid. This structure on a vector bundle $E\rightarrow M$, consists of an antisymmetric bracket on the sections of $E$ whose ``Jacobi anomaly'' has an explicit expression in terms of a bundle map $E\rightarrow TM$ and a field of symmetric bilinear forms on $E$. When $M$ is a point, the definition reduces to that of a Lie algebra carrying an invariant nondegenerate symmetric bilinear form. For any Lie bialgebroid $(A,A^{*})$ over $M$ (a notion defined by Mackenzie and Xu), there is a natural Courant algebroid structure on $A\oplus A^{*}$ which is the Drinfel'd double of a Lie bialgebra when $M$ is a point. Conversely, if $A$ and $A^*$ are complementary isotropic subbundles of a Courant algebroid $E$, closed under the bracket (such a bundle, with dimension half that of $E$, is called a Dirac structure), there is a natural Lie bialgebroid structure on $(A,A^{*})$ whose double is isomorphic to $E$. The theory of Manin triples is thereby extended from Lie algebras to Lie algebroids. Our work gives a new approach to bihamiltonian structures and a new way of combining two Poisson structures to obtain a third one. We also take some tentative steps toward generalizing Drinfel'd's theory of Poisson homogeneous spaces from groups to groupoids.

Lie bialgebroids and Poisson groupoids

Abstract: Lie bialgebras arise as infinitesimal invariants of Poisson Lie groups. A Lie bialgebra is a Lie algebra g with a Lie algebra structure on the dual g∗ which is compatible with the Lie algebra g in a certain sense. For a Poisson group G, the multiplicative Poisson structure π induces a Lie algebra structure on the Lie algebra dual g∗ which makes (g, g∗) into a Lie bialgebra. In fact, there is a one-one correspondence between Poisson Lie groups and Lie bialgebras if the Lie groups are assumed to be simply connected [7], [16], [19]. The importance of Poisson Lie groups themselves arises in part from their role as classical limits of quantum groups [8] and in part because they provide a class of Poisson structures for which the realization problem is tractable [15]. Poisson groupoids were introduced by Weinstein [24] as a generalization of both Poisson Lie groups and the symplectic groupoids which arise in the integration of arbitrary Poisson manifolds [4], [11]. He noted that the Lie algebroid dual A∗G of a Poisson groupoid G itself has a Lie algebroid structure, but did not develop the infinitesimal structure further. In this paper we introduce and study a natural infinitesimal invariant for Poisson groupoids, the Lie bialgebroids of the title. Our ultimate purpose is to develop a Lie theory for Poisson groupoids parallel to that for Poisson groups. In this paper we are primarily concerned with the first half of this process; that is, with the construction of the Lie bialgebroid of a Poisson groupoid. After the preliminary §2, in which we describe the generalization to arbitrary Lie algebroids of the exterior calculus and Schouten calculus, in §3 we define a Lie bialgebroid to be a Lie algebroid A whose dual A∗ is also equipped with a Lie algebroid structure, such that the coboundary operator d∗ : A −→ ∧(A) associated to A∗ satisfies a cocycle equation with respect to Γ(A), the Lie algebra of sections of A. This is clearly a straightforward extension of the concept of a Lie bialgebra [16] but cannot be formalized in Lie algebroid cohomological terms since there is no satisfactory adjoint representation for a general Lie algebroid. Most of §3 is devoted to proving that this definition is self-dual: if (A,A∗) is a Lie bialgebroid, then (A∗, A) is also. In §4, we briefly consider the special case of Lie bialgebroids satisfying a triangularity condition, which include some important examples such as the usual triangular Lie bialgebras and Lie bialgebroids associated to Poisson manifolds. The techniques used in §§2–4 are similar to those known for Lie bialgebras. It would be possible, by suitably generalizing the proof for Poisson groups, to prove

Coadjoint Orbits of the Virasoro Group

Abstract: The coadjoint orbits of the Virasoro group, which have been investigated by Lazutkin and Pankratova and by Segal, should according to the Kirillov-Kostant theory be related to the unitary representations of the Virasoro group. In this paper, the classification of orbits is reconsidered, with an explicit description of the possible centralizers of coadjoint orbits. The possible orbits are diff(S1) itself, diff(S1)/S1, and diff(S1)/SL(n)(2,R), withSL(n)(2,R) a certain discrete series of embeddings ofSL(2,R) in diff(S1), and diffS1/T, whereT may be any of certain rather special one parameter subgroups of diffS1. An attempt is made to clarify the relation between orbits and representations. It appears that quantization of diffS1/S1 is related to unitary representations with nondegenerate Kac determinant (unitary Verma modules), while quantization of diffS1/SL(n)(2,R) is seemingly related to unitary representations with null vectors in leveln. A better understanding of how to quantize the relevant orbits might lead to a better geometrical understanding of Virasoro representation theory. In the process of investigating Virasoro coadjoint orbits, we observe the existence of left invariant symplectic structures on the Virasoro group manifold. As is described in an appendix, these give rise to Lie bialgebra structures with the Virasoro algebra as the underlying Lie algebra.