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A Poisson bracket on the space of Poisson structures

Differential Geometry 2023-04-27 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

Let MM be a smooth closed orientable manifold and P(M)\mathcal{P}(M) the space of Poisson structures on MM. We construct a Poisson bracket on P(M)\mathcal{P}(M) depending on a choice of volume form. The Hamiltonian flow of the bracket acts on P(M)\mathcal{P}(M) by volume-preserving diffeomorphism of MM. 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 ddΛd d^\Lambda and d+dΛd+ d^\Lambda symplectic cohomology groups defined by Tseng and Yau.

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@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

R2 v1 2026-06-23T18:05:36.999Z