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Courant-Dorfman algebras and their cohomology

Dmitry Roytenberg
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We introduce a new type of algebra, the Courant-Dorfman algebra. These are to Courant algebroids what Lie-Rinehart algebras are to Lie algebroids, or Poisson algebras to Poisson manifolds. We work with arbitrary rings and modules, without any regularity, finiteness or non-degeneracy assumptions. To each Courant-Dorfman algebra $(\R,\E)$ we associate a differential graded algebra $\C(\E,\R)$ in a functorial way by means of explicit formulas. We describe two canonical filtrations on $\C(\E,\R)$, and derive an analogue of the Cartan relations for derivations of $\C(\E,\R)$; we classify central extensions of $\E$ in terms of $H^2(\E,\R)$ and study the canonical cocycle $Θ\in\C^3(\E,\R)$ whose class $[Θ]$ obstructs re-scalings of the Courant-Dorfman structure. In the nondegenerate case, we also explicitly describe the Poisson bracket on $\C(\E,\R)$; for Courant-Dorfman algebras associated to Courant algebroids over finite-dimensional smooth manifolds, we prove that the Poisson dg algebra $\C(\E,\R)$ is isomorphic to the one constructed in \cite{Roy4-GrSymp} using graded manifolds.

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Dmitry Roytenberg. 2009-11-30. Courant-Dorfman algebras and their cohomology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11005-009-0342-3

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