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Bialgebra Structures on Flat Lie Algebras and their Poisson-Lie Groups

Differential Geometry 2026-03-31 v2

Abstract

We study Lie bialgebra structures on \emph{flat metric Lie algebras}, that is, Lie algebras (g,,)(\mathfrak{g},\langle\cdot,\cdot\rangle) whose associated left-invariant Riemannian metric on the simply connected Lie group GG has zero curvature. By Milnor's structure theorem, such g\mathfrak{g} splits orthogonally as g=au,u=[g,g] abelian and even dimensional,a:=sz,\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{a}\oplus\mathfrak{u},\qquad \mathfrak{u}=[\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{g}]\ \text{abelian and even dimensional},\quad\mathfrak{a}:=\mathfrak{s}\oplus\mathfrak{z}, where z\mathfrak{z} is the center and s\mathfrak{s} is an abelian subalgebra that acts on u\mathfrak{u} by commuting infinitesimal rotations; this yields a decomposition of u\mathfrak{u} into 22-dimensional weight planes PP_\ell. Under a generic \emph{nondegeneracy} (nonresonance) condition on the weights, we establish a normal form for Lie-bialgebra 11-cocycles ξ ⁣:g2g\xi\colon\mathfrak{g}\to \wedge^2\mathfrak{g}: each ξ\xi admits a decomposition ξ=\adr+R\xi=\ad r+R, where \adr\ad r is a coboundary and RR is a normalized cocycle with tightly controlled components. Using the Big Bracket (Maurer--Cartan) formalism together with the rotation geometry of the weight planes, we split the co-Jacobi condition into two independent equations: a reduced co-Jacobi equation {R,R}=0\{R,R\}=0 for the normalized cocycle, and an invariant-trivector condition [r,r]+2{r,R}(3g)g[r,r]+2\{r,R\}\in(\wedge^3\mathfrak{g})^{\mathfrak{g}} for the coupling term. We then describe the quasi-triangular (classical Yang--Baxter) locus via invariant Schouten squares. Finally, we integrate ξ\xi to explicit multiplicative Poisson tensors on GG, producing concrete families of flat Poisson--Lie groups with polynomial formulas along the abelian normal subgroup exp(zu)\exp(\mathfrak{z}\oplus\mathfrak{u}).

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@article{arxiv.2310.12966,
  title  = {Bialgebra Structures on Flat Lie Algebras and their Poisson-Lie Groups},
  author = {Amine Bahayou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.12966},
  year   = {2026}
}
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