Courant Algebroids. A Short History
History and Overview
2013-02-20 v2 Differential Geometry
Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Dirac led to the definition of the Courant bracket. The search for the right notion of a "double" for Lie bialgebroids led to the definition of Courant algebroids. We recount the emergence of these concepts.
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@article{arxiv.1212.0559,
title = {Courant Algebroids. A Short History},
author = {Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.0559},
year = {2013}
}
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Dedicated to Peter Olver