A Poisson bracket on the space of Poisson structures
Differential Geometry
2023-04-27 v2 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
Let be a smooth closed orientable manifold and the space of Poisson structures on . We construct a Poisson bracket on depending on a choice of volume form. The Hamiltonian flow of the bracket acts on by volume-preserving diffeomorphism of . We then define an invariant of a Poisson structure that describes fixed points of the flow equation and compute it for regular Poisson 3-manifolds, where it detects unimodularity. For unimodular Poisson structures we define a further, related Poisson bracket and show that for symplectic structures the associated invariant counting fixed points of the flow equation is given in terms of the and symplectic cohomology groups defined by Tseng and Yau.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2008.11074,
title = {A Poisson bracket on the space of Poisson structures},
author = {Thomas Machon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.11074},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
18 pages. v2: Many updates and corrections