Abstracts
Anton Alekseev, Deformation
quantization of coadjoint orbits
I
will explain how Fedosov's quantization applies to coadjoint orbits. In many
situations, this method gives rise to explicit formulas for invariant star-products
related to dynamical twists and dynamical R-matrices.
This talk is based on joint works with A. Lachowska and A. Szenes.
Martin
Bordemann, (Bi)modules, morphisms and reduction of star-products: the
symplectic case, foliations and obstructions
(Bi)modules, morphisms and reduction of
star-products are studied in a framework of multidifferential operators along
maps: morphisms deform Poisson maps and representations on functions spaces
deform coisotropic maps. If a star-product is representable on a coisotropic
submanifold, it is equivalent to a star-product for which the vanishing ideal
is a left ideal. If the reduced phase space exists, a star-product with
suitable Deligne class is representable and the reduced algebra is the
commutant of this module (hence a bimodule). Obstructions to representability
to third order are related to the Atiyah-Molino class of the foliation of the
coisotropic submanifold, and the same kind of obstructions occurs for the
quantisation of a Poisson map between symplectic manifolds. For vanishing
Atiyah-Molino class, the representation and morphism problem is solvable.
Henrique Bursztyn
I will describe how the usual notions of hamiltonian action, momentum map and symplectic reduction in Poisson Geometry can be extended to the context of (twisted) Dirac Geometry. I will show how hamiltonian quasi-Poisson manifolds with group-valued moment maps fit into this general framework, and I will point out some nice features of this alternative approach. This is joint work with M. Crainic.
Rui L. Fernandes, First
steps in Poisson topology
In this lecture I will discuss properties of Poisson manifolds, which have a topological flavor, such as rigidity, softness and stability.
Philip Foth
, Toric degenerations of polygon spaces and applications
There are remarkable integrable systems on the moduli spaces of spatial polygons, where the angle variables define the "bending flows''. We show that there exist flat degenerations of these spaces to toric varieties where the polytopes are defined by the action variables (diagonals in polygons). We also construct toric degenerations of moduli spaces of stable marked projective lines which also illuminate interesting integrable systems. We generalize this approach to higher dimensions, like Flaschka-Millson integrable systems and Chow quotients of grassmannians by torus action. These constructions can be applied to finding algebraic invariants of these spaces and to representation theory. (Joint work with Yi Hu)
Janusz Grabowski, Frame independent Mechanics: Lie and Poisson brackets on sections of affine bundles
A geometric framework for a frame-independent formulation of different problems in analytical mechanics is developed. In this approach affine bundles replace vector bundles of the standard description. In particular, momenta take affine values and energy functions are replaced by sections of certain affine line bundles called AV-bundles. Categorial constructions for affine bundles and AV-bundles as well as natural analogs of Lie algebroid structures on affine bundles (Lie affgebroids) are presented. Certain Lie algebroids and Lie affgebroids canonically associated with an AV-bundle turn out to be closely related to affine analogs of Poisson and Jacobi brackets. Homology and cohomology of the latter are canonically defined. The developed concepts find an application in solving some problems of frame-independent geometric description of mechanical systems.
Marco Gualtieri, Generalized Geometry
In this talk I will describe generalized complex geometry, which is a way of unifying complex and symplectic geometry using the framework of complex Dirac structures. I will describe the main results in this field, and go on to describe some implications of this unification for mirror symmetry.
Kirill
C. H. Mackenzie, Duality for double and higher
structures
The duality between linear Poisson structures on a vector bundle and Lie algebroid structures on its dual is best expressed in terms of the tangent and cotangent double vector bundles associated to the vector bundle. The duality of double vector bundles is also fundamental to the concept of double Lie algebroid, which includes the cotangent double of a Lie bialgebroid. In this talk we show that the somewhat surprising duality properties of double vector bundles are easily understood in terms of triple vector bundle structures and indicate the general phenomena in the case of higher structures.
Yoshiaki Maeda, Complex
Maslov blurred bundles
Alan Weinstein constructed Maslov gerbes, which is the complex version of the Maslov bundles. We will give another approach to construct these objects by using the deformation quantization of the quadratic functions in the Weyl algebra.
Philippe Monnier, Poisson cohomology
We give an explicit computation of the local Poisson cohomology of generic germs at 0 of Poisson structures in dimension 2. While generalizing this computation to higher dimensions, we are led to introduce a new cohomology attached to a function. We then try to give some "basic" properties of this cohomology.
Serge Parmentier, On
dynamical Poisson groupoids
In this talk, I will report on a joint work with L.-C. Li and with R. Pujol. The lecture will survey several properties of Poisson groupoids of Etingof-Varchenko type. In particular, the description of Poisson groupoid duality together with reduced duality diagrams, and the link with Lie quasi-bialgebras will be given. Applications thereof to the description of the moduli space of dynamical r-matrices and double constructions will also be addressed.
Olga Radko
, The
Picard groups and topologically stable Poisson structures
The Picard group of a Poisson manifold P, introduced by Bursztyn and Weinstein, consists of all Morita self-equivalence P-bimodules, with the operation of the relative tensor product. We describe the Picard groups of certain Poisson structures on compact oriented surfaces, and discuss some related results.
Tudor Ratiu, Orbits in Banach Lie-Poisson spaces
The notion of Banach Lie-Poisson space will be briefly presented and the main properties of these spaces will be discussed. Special emphasis will be given to the problem of extensions. Then various orbits in specific Banach Lie-Poisson spaces associated to W*-algebras and operator ideals will be analyzed. Examples of embedded orbits will be given and also those that carry a Kähler structure.
Pavol Severa, Non-commutative differential forms and quantization of the odd symplectic category
There is a simple and natural quantization of differential forms on odd Poisson supermanifolds, given by the relation [f,dg]={f,g} for any two functions f and g. We notice that this non-commutative differential algebra has a geometrical realization as a convolution algebra of the symplectic groupoid integrating the Poisson manifold.
This quantization is just a part of a quantization of the odd symplectic category (where objects are odd symplectic supermanifolds and morphisms are Lagrangian relation) in terms of Z_2-graded chain complexes. It is a straightforward consequence of the theory of BV operators acting on semi-densities, due to H. Khudaverdian.
Izu Vaisman, Poisson structures on foliated manifolds
I present a survey of results on relationships between a Poisson structure P and a foliation F on a differentiable manifold M. First, I will discuss transversally-Poisson structures of F. These are bivector fields P that define a Poisson algebra structure on the subalgebra of F-leaf-wise constant smooth functions of M. Such structures are relevant for physical systems with gauge parameters. P is equivalent with a foliation of M by pre-symplectic leaves, which contains F as a sub-foliation. Then, we will discuss leaf-wise Poisson structures, i.e., Poisson bivector fields P of M such that the symplectic leaves of P are submanifolds of the leaves of F. Here, the main result is a spectral sequence for the Poisson cohomology of P. Finally, we will present the coupling Poisson structures of Vorobiev. They extend Sternberg's symplectic form, which describes the coupling between a particle and a field. We will present the characterization of an F-coupling Poisson bivector field P via a normal bundle of F, and give a simpler construction of Vorobiev's structure on the dual bundle of the kernel of a transitive Lie algebroid over a symplectic manifold.
Theodore
Voronov, Higher derived brackets
Various brackets in
algebra and geometry, such as the Lie bracket in an arbitrary Lie algebra or
superalgebra, the Poisson bracket on a Poisson manifold, etc., are
examples of the so called "derived brackets", having as their source
a canonical bracket (such as the commutator of vector fields or the
canonical Poisson bracket on the cotangent bundle) and a "deriving
element". In all these cases, the deriving element is in a certain
sense "quadratic" and the resulting bracket satisfies the Jacobi
identity.
"Higher derived brackets" is a generalization of derived brackets, a
construction of an infinite sequence of operations from simple data on a Lie
superalgebra, giving strongly homotopy Lie algebras and algebras related to
them. It should be looked at as a proper framework for
"non-quadratic" deriving elements. On one hand the main statement is
purely algebraic, on the other hand the construction is motivated by various
examples from geometry and mathematical physics. It contains, in particular,
the standard description of arbitrary SH Lie algebras via homological vector
fields and the example of brackets generated by a differential operator (such
as the Batalin - Vilkovisky type operators).
Aissa Wade, On the local structure of
Dirac manifolds
We give a local normal form for Dirac structures.
As a consequence, we show that the dimensions of the pre-symplectic leaves of
a Dirac manifold have the same parity. We also show that, given a point m of a
Dirac manifold M, there is a well-defined transverse Poisson structure to the
pre-symplectic leaf P through m. Finally, we describe the neighborhood of a
pre-symplectic leaf in terms of geometric data. This description agrees with
that given by Vorobjev for the Poisson case.
Alan
Weinstein, Prequantization of Poisson manifolds associated with contact
manifolds
Given
a manifold C with a cooriented contact structure, a construction of LeBrun
(1991) produces a Poisson manifold P with boundary. The interior of P is
the symplectization of C, while the boundary of P is a copy of C with the zero
Poisson structure (nevertheless, Poisson automorphisms of P preserve the
contact structure on the boundary).
In
this talk, we will propose that an appropriate prequantization of P is given
by a Jacobi manifold Q and a Jacobi map p:Q-->P. The fibres of p are,
as usual, the orbits of a circle action, but the circle action is not free on
the part of Q lying above C. The proposal is based on considerations
coming from Berezin-Toeplitz quantization of bounded domains like the unit
ball in complex n-space.
Ping Xu, On the
universal lifting theorem
Give a Lie groupoid G, the space of multiplicative multivector fields on G is naturally a graded Lie algebra. For a Lie algebroid A, we introduce the notion of the so called "multi-differentials", which is also a graded Lie algebra. We prove that for an s-connected and s-simply-connected Lie groupoid, these two graded Lie algebras are isomorphic.
As an application, we prove the integration theorem of quasi-Lie bialgebroids. Application to quasi-Poisson manifolds is discussed.
This is a joint work with David Iglesias and Camille Laurent.
Nguyen Tien Zung, Linearization of Lie groupoids and symplectic groupoids
I will talk about some recent results concerning the linearization of Lie groupoids and symplectic groupoids, and some applications.
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