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The Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket in infinite dimensions

Differential Geometry 2025-04-22 v1 Functional Analysis

Abstract

The Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket on smooth infinite-dimensional manifolds MM is developed in two steps: For summable multivector fields whose pointwise dual are all differential form, and in an extended form for multivector fields which are sections of Lskew(TM,R)L^{\bullet}_{\text{skew}}(T^*M,\mathbb R). We need to either assume that C(M)C^{\infty}(M) separates points on TMTM, or consider sheaves of local sections.

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@article{arxiv.2504.15010,
  title  = {The Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket in infinite dimensions},
  author = {Peter W. Michor},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.15010},
  year   = {2025}
}

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