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Poisson structures on smooth 4-manifolds

Differential Geometry 2016-09-23 v3 Mathematical Physics math.MP Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We show that every closed oriented smooth 4-manifold admits a complete singular Poisson structure in each homotopy class of maps to the 2-sphere. The rank of this structure is 2 outside a small singularity set, which consists of finitely many circles and isolated points. The Poisson bivector has rank 0 on the singularities, where we give its local form explicitly.

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@article{arxiv.1406.7105,
  title  = {Poisson structures on smooth 4-manifolds},
  author = {Luis C. García-Naranjo and Pablo Suárez-Serrato and Ramón Vera},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7105},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

v3: 17pgs. We shortened, and streamlined, both the proof and the exposition. The main result now follows from a formula used by Damianou-Petalidou, attributed to Flaschka-Ratiu

R2 v1 2026-06-22T04:48:57.023Z