Reduction of Dirac structures along isotropic subbundles
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چکیده
Given a Dirac subbundle and an isotropic subbundle, we provide a canonical method to obtain a new Dirac subbundle. When the original Dirac subbundle is Courant involutive this construction has interesting applications, unifying and generalizing some results on the reduction of Dirac structures previously found in the literature.
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