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Poisson–Jacobi reduction of homogeneous tensors

J Grabowski1, D Iglesias2, J C Marrero3, E Padrón3 and P Urbanski4

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The notion of homogeneous tensors is discussed. We show that there is a one-to-one correspondence between multivector fields on a manifold M, homogeneous with respect to a vector field Δ on M, and first-order polydifferential operators on a closed submanifold N of codimension 1 such that Δ is transversal to N. This correspondence relates the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket of multivector fields on M to the Schouten–Jacobi bracket of first-order polydifferential operators on N and generalizes the Poissonization of Jacobi manifolds. Actually, it can be viewed as a super-Poissonization. This procedure of passing from a homogeneous multivector field to a first-order polydifferential operator can also be understood as a sort of reduction; in the standard case—a half of a Poisson reduction. A dual version of the above correspondence yields in particular the correspondence between Δ-homogeneous symplectic structures on M and contact structures on N.


PACS

02.10.Ud Linear algebra

02.30.Tb Operator theory

MSC

53D10 Contact manifolds, general

47A80 Tensor products of operators (See also 46M05)

57R25 Vector fields, frame fields

53D17 Poisson manifolds

47E05 Ordinary differential operators (See also 34Bxx, 34Lxx)

Subjects

Mathematical physics

Dates

Issue 20 (21 May 2004)

Received 17 October 2003, in final form 17 March 2004

Published 5 May 2004



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