Linear and multiplicative 2-forms
Differential Geometry
2009-11-04 v1 Symplectic Geometry
Abstract
We study the relationship between multiplicative 2-forms on Lie groupoids and linear 2-forms on Lie algebroids, which leads to a new approach to the infinitesimal description of multiplicative 2-forms and to the integration of twisted Dirac manifolds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0911.0441,
title = {Linear and multiplicative 2-forms},
author = {Henrique Bursztyn and Alejandro Cabrera and Cristian Ortiz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.0441},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
to appear in Letters in Mathematical Physics