Poisson–Lie group


In mathematics, a Poisson–Lie group is a Poisson manifold that is also a Lie group, with the group multiplication being compatible with the Poisson algebra structure on the manifold. The algebra of a Poisson–Lie group is a Lie bialgebra.

Definition

A Poisson–Lie group is a Lie group G equipped with a Poisson bracket for which the group multiplication with is a Poisson map, where the manifold G×G has been given the structure of a product Poisson manifold.
Explicitly, the following identity must hold for a Poisson–Lie group:
where f1 and f2 are real-valued, smooth functions on the Lie group, while g and g' are elements of the Lie group. Here, Lg denotes left-multiplication and Rg denotes right-multiplication.
If denotes the corresponding Poisson bivector on G, the condition above can be equivalently stated as
Note that for Poisson-Lie group always, or equivalently. This means that non-trivial Poisson-Lie structure is never symplectic, not even of constant rank.

Homomorphisms

A Poisson–Lie group homomorphism is defined to be both a Lie group homomorphism and a Poisson map. Although this is the "obvious" definition, neither left translations nor right translations are Poisson maps. Also, the inversion map taking is not a Poisson map either, although it is an anti-Poisson map:
for any two smooth functions on G.