Remarks on the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket
Let and be graded Lie algebras whose grading is in or , but only one of them. Suppose that is a derivatively knitted pair of representations for , i.e. and satisfy equations which look “derivatively knitted"; then , endowed with a suitable bracket, which mimics semidirect products on both sides, becomes a graded Lie algebra . This graded Lie algebra is called the knit product of and . The author investigates the general situation for any graded Lie subalgebras and of a graded...
An -ary Poisson bracket (or generalized Poisson bracket) on the manifold is a skew-symmetric -linear bracket of functions which is a derivation in each argument and satisfies the generalized Jacobi identity of order , i.e., being the symmetric group. The notion of generalized Poisson bracket was introduced by et al. in [J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 29, No. 7, L151–L157 (1996; Zbl 0912.53019) and J. Phys. A, Math. Gen. 30, No. 18, L607–L616 (1997; Zbl 0932.37056)]. They established...
The space B = Imm (S, R) / Diff (S) of all immersions of rotation degree 0 in the plane modulo reparameterizations has homotopy groups π(B ) = Z, π(B ) = Z, and π(B ) = 0 for k ≥ 3.
We study some Riemannian metrics on the space of smooth regular curves in the plane, viewed as the orbit space of maps from to the plane modulo the group of diffeomorphisms of , acting as reparametrizations. In particular we investigate the metric, for a constant , where is the curvature of the curve and , are normal vector fields to . The term is a sort of geometric Tikhonov regularization because, for , the geodesic distance between any two distinct curves is 0, while for the...
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