Jacobi groupoids are introduced as a generalization of Poisson and contact groupoids and it is proved that generalized Lie bialgebroids are the infinitesimal invariants of Jacobi groupoids. Several examples are discussed.
Generalized Lie bialgebroids and Jacobi structures
β Scribed by David Iglesias; Juan C. Marrero
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0393-0440
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β¦ Synopsis
The notion of a generalized Lie bialgebroid (a generalization of the notion of a Lie bialgebroid) is introduced in such a way that a Jacobi manifold has associated a canonical generalized Lie bialgebroid. As a kind of converse, we prove that a Jacobi structure can be defined on the base space of a generalized Lie bialgebroid. We also show that it is possible to construct a Lie bialgebroid from a generalized Lie bialgebroid and, as a consequence, we deduce a duality theorem. Finally, some special classes of generalized Lie bialgebroids are considered: triangular generalized Lie bialgebroids and generalized Lie bialgebras.
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