Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1993-10-13
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
30 pages. Principal content unaltered, some misprints corrected some statements reworded, three references added, format expan
Scientific paper
We give a constructive account of the fundamental ingredients of Poisson Lie theory as the basis for a description of the classical double group $D$. The double of a group $G$ has a pointwise decomposition $D\sim G\times G^*$, where $G$ and $G^*$ are Lie subgroups generated by dual Lie algebras which form a Lie bialgebra. The double is an example of a factorisable Poisson Lie group, in the sense of Reshetikhin and Semenov-Tian-Shansky [1], and usually the study of its Poisson structures is developed only in the case when the subgroup $G$ is itself factorisable. We give an explicit description of the Poisson Lie structure of the double without invoking this assumption. This is achieved by a direct calculation, in infinitesimal form, of the dressing actions of the subgroups on each other, and provides a new and general derivation of the Poisson Lie structure on the group $G^*$. For the example of the double of SU(2), the symplectic leaves of the Poisson Lie structures on SU(2) and SU(2$)^*$ are displayed.
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