The graded Jacobi algebras and (co)homology

Details The graded Jacobi algebras and (co)homology The graded Jacobi algebras and (co)homology

2002-07-02

arxiv.org/abs/math/0207017v3

J.Phys.A36:161-181,2003

Mathematics

Differential Geometry

20 pages, a few typos corrected; final version to be published in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/36/1/311

Jacobi algebroids (i.e. `Jacobi versions' of Lie algebroids) are studied in the context of graded Jacobi brackets on graded commutative algebras. This unifies varios concepts of graded Lie structures in geometry and physics. A method of describing such structures by classical Lie algebroids via certain gauging (in the spirit of E.Witten's gauging of exterior derivative) is developed. One constructs a corresponding Cartan differential calculus (graded commutative one) in a natural manner. This, in turn, gives canonical generating operators for triangular Jacobi algebroids. One gets, in particular, the Lichnerowicz-Jacobi homology operators associated with classical Jacobi structures. Courant-Jacobi brackets are obtained in a similar way and use to define an abstract notion of a Courant-Jacobi algebroid and Dirac-Jacobi structure. All this offers a new flavour in understanding the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism.

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