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Twisted Courant algebroids and coisotropic Cartan geometries

Differential Geometry 2018-02-28 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we show that associated to any coisotropic Cartan geometry there is a twisted Courant algebroid. This includes in particular parabolic geometries. Using this twisted Courant structure, we give some new results about the Cartan curvature and the Weyl structure of a parabolic geometry. As more direct applications, we have Lie 2-algebra and 3D AKSZ sigma model with background associated to any coisotropic Cartan geometry.

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@article{arxiv.1206.2282,
  title  = {Twisted Courant algebroids and coisotropic Cartan geometries},
  author = {Xu Xiaomeng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.2282},
  year   = {2018}
}