Lectures on the Geometry of Poisson Manifolds
By: by Izu Vaisman
Series: Progress in Mathematics -- 118; Progress in Mathematics -- 118
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; Imprint: Birkhäuser
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9783034896498; 9783034884952
Subjects: Global differential geometry; Mathematics; Cell aggregation
Description: This book is addressed to graduate students and researchers in the fields of mathematics and physics who are interested in mathematical and theoretical physics, differential geometry, mechanics, quantization theories and quantum physics, quantum groups etc., and who are familiar with differentiable and symplectic manifolds. The aim of the book is to provide the reader with a monograph that enables him to study systematically basic and advanced material on the recently developed theory of Poisson manifolds, and that also offers ready access to bibliographical references for the continuation of his study. Until now, most of this material was dispersed in research papers published in many journals and languages. The main subjects treated are the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket; the generalized Frobenius theorem; the basics of Poisson manifolds; Poisson calculus and cohomology; quantization; Poisson morphisms and reduction; realizations of Poisson manifolds by symplectic manifolds and by symplectic groupoids and Poisson-Lie groups. The book unifies terminology and notation. It also reports on some original developments stemming from the author's work, including new results on Poisson cohomology and geometric quantization, cofoliations and biinvariant Poisson structures on Lie groups.
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