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The Classification of Dirac Homogeneous Spaces

Differential Geometry 2014-11-12 v1

Abstract

A well known result of Drinfeld classifies Poisson Lie groups (H,Π)(H,\Pi) in terms of Lie algebraic data in the form of Manin triples (d,g,h)(\mathfrak{d},\mathfrak{g},\mathfrak{h}); he also classified compatible Poisson structures on HH-homogeneous spaces H/KH/K in terms of Lagrangian subalgebras ld\mathfrak{l}\subset\mathfrak{d} with lh=k=Lie(K)\mathfrak{l}\cap\mathfrak{h}=\mathfrak{k}=\mathrm{Lie}(K). Using the language of Courant algebroids and groupoids, Li-Bland and Meinrenken formalized the notion of \emph{Dirac Lie groups} and classified them in terms of so-called "HH-equivariant Dirac Manin triples" (d,g,h)β(\mathfrak{d}, \mathfrak{g}, \mathfrak{h})_\beta; this generalizes the first result of Drinfeld, as each Poisson Lie group gives a unique Dirac Lie group structure. In this thesis, we consider a notion of homogeneous space for Dirac Lie groups, and classify them in terms of KK-invariant coisotropic subalgebras cd\mathfrak{c}\subset\mathfrak{d}, with ch=k\mathfrak{c}\cap\mathfrak{h} = \mathfrak{k}. The relation between Poisson and Dirac morphisms makes Drinfeld's second result a special case of this classification.

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@article{arxiv.1411.2958,
  title  = {The Classification of Dirac Homogeneous Spaces},
  author = {Patrick James Robinson},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.2958},
  year   = {2014}
}

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110 pages, PhD Thesis

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