Integrability of Lie Brackets

Lectures on Integrability of Lie Brackets

Extensions of Lie Brackets

We provide a framework for extensions of Lie algebroids, including non-abelian extensions and Lie algebroids over different bases. Our approach involves Ehresmann connections, which allows straight generalizations of classical constructions. We exhibit a filtration in cohomology and explain the associated spectral sequence. We also give a description of the groupoid integrating an extension in ...

Prequantization and Lie Brackets

We start by describing the relationship between the classical prequantization condition and the integrability of a certain Lie algebroid associated to the problem and use this to give a global construction of the prequantizing bundle in terms of path spaces (Introduction), then we rephrase the problem in terms of groupoids (second section), and then we study the more general problem of prequant...

Poisson geometry of the infinite Toda lattice

Many important conservative systems have a non canonical Hamiltonian formulation in terms of Lie-Poisson brackets. For integrable systems, this is usually the first of two or more compatible brackets. With few notable exceptions, such as the Euler, Poisson-Vlasov, KdV, or sine-Gordon equations, for example, for infinite dimensional systems this Lie-Poisson bracket formulation is mostly formal. ...

Α-surfaces for Complex Space-times with Torsion

This paper studies necessary conditions for the existence of α-surfaces in complex space-time manifolds with nonvanishing torsion. For these manifolds, Lie brackets of vector fields and spinor Ricci identities contain explicitly the effects of torsion. This leads to an integrability condition for α-surfaces which does not involve just the self-dual Weyl spinor, as in complexified general relati...