2012

The Pontryagin Class for Pre-Courant Algebroids

Liu, Zhangju, Sheng, Yunhe, Xu, Xiaomeng

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In this paper, we show that the Jacobiator $J$ of a pre-Courant algebroid is closed naturally.

The corresponding equivalence class $[J^\flat]$ is defined as the Pontryagin class, which is the obstruction of a pre-Courant algebroid to be deformed into a Courant algebroid.
We construct a Leibniz 2-algebra and a Lie 2-algebra associated to a pre-Courant algebroid and prove that these algebraic structures are isomorphic under deformations.
Finally, we introduce the twisted action of a Lie algebra on a manifold to give more examples of pre-Courant algebroids, which include the Cartan geometry.

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