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Graded manifolds and Drinfeld doubles for Lie bialgebroids

Differential Geometry 2019-01-08 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Algebra Symplectic Geometry

Abstract

We define \textit{graded manifolds} as a version of supermanifolds endowed with an additional Z\mathbb Z-grading in the structure sheaf, called \textit{weight} (not linked with parity). Examples are ordinary supermanifolds, vector bundles over supermanifolds, double vector bundles, iterated constructions like TTMTTM, etc. I give a construction of \textit{doubles} for \textit{graded} QSQS- and \textit{graded QPQP-manifolds} (graded manifolds endowed with a homological vector field and a Schouten/Poisson bracket). Relation is explained with Drinfeld's Lie bialgebras and their doubles. Graded QSQS-manifolds can be considered, roughly, as ``generalized Lie bialgebroids''. The double for them is closely related with the analog of Drinfeld's double for Lie bialgebroids recently suggested by Roytenberg. Lie bialgebroids as a generalization of Lie bialgebras, over some base manifold, were defined by Mackenzie and P. Xu. Graded QPQP-manifolds give an {odd version} for all this, in particular, they contain ``odd analogs'' for Lie bialgebras, Manin triples, and Drinfeld's double.

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@article{arxiv.math/0105237,
  title  = {Graded manifolds and Drinfeld doubles for Lie bialgebroids},
  author = {Theodore Voronov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0105237},
  year   = {2019}
}

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LaTeX2e, 38 pages. Latest update (November 2002): text reworked, certain things added; this is the final version as published

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