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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 2:00pm

Yvette Kosmann-Schwarzbach

Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

We shall define the analogues of the Nijenhuis tensors of ordinary differential geometry in generalized geometry, more generally on Courant Algebroids} (following Grabowski), or on any even Poisson supermanifold equipped with a homological function (following Kajiura and Terashima), and we shall show how such Nijenhuis tensors give rise to deformed brackets.