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Keywords:
Poisson sigma models; Poisson manifolds; Poisson-Lie groups; bundle maps
Summary:
Poisson sigma models represent an interesting use of Poisson manifolds for the construction of a classical field theory. Their definition in the language of fibre bundles is shown and the corresponding field equations are derived using a coordinate independent variational principle. The elegant form of equations of motion for so called Poisson-Lie groups is derived. Construction of the Poisson-Lie group corresponding to a given Lie bialgebra is widely known only for coboundary Lie bialgebras. Using the adjoint representation of Lie group and Drinfel’d double we show that Poisson-Lie group can be constructed for general Lie bialgebra.
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