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Keywords:
spacetime; spacetime connection; Schouten bracket; Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket; symplectic structure; Poisson structure
Summary:
We describe conditions under which a spacetime connection and a scaled Lorentzian metric define natural symplectic and Poisson structures on the tangent bundle of the Einstein spacetime.
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