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A '''Poisson bracket''' on a smooth manifold $M$ is a Lie bracket $\{~,~\}$ on the space of smooth functions $C^\infty(M)$ which, additionally, satisfies the Leibniz identity: | A '''Poisson bracket''' on a smooth manifold $M$ is a Lie bracket $\{~,~\}$ on the space of smooth functions $C^\infty(M)$ which, additionally, satisfies the Leibniz identity: | ||
$$ \{f,gh\}=\{f,g\}h+g\{f,h\},\qquad \forall f,g,h\in C^\infty(M).$$ | $$ \{f,gh\}=\{f,g\}h+g\{f,h\},\qquad \forall f,g,h\in C^\infty(M).$$ | ||
| + | The pair $(M,\{~,~\})$ is called a '''Poisson manifold'''. | ||
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| + | On a Poisson manifold $(M,\{~,~\}), any smooth function $h\in C^\infty(M)$ determines a '''hamiltonian vector field''' $X_h$ by setting: | ||
| + | $$ X_h(f):=\{h,f\}.$$ | ||
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Poisson manifold
A Poisson bracket on a smooth manifold $M$ is a Lie bracket $\{~,~\}$ on the space of smooth functions $C^\infty(M)$ which, additionally, satisfies the Leibniz identity: $$ \{f,gh\}=\{f,g\}h+g\{f,h\},\qquad \forall f,g,h\in C^\infty(M).$$ The pair $(M,\{~,~\})$ is called a Poisson manifold.
On a Poisson manifold $(M,\{~,~\}), any smooth function $h\in C^\infty(M)$ determines a '''hamiltonian vector field''' $X_h$ by setting: $$ X_h(f):=\{h,f\}.$$
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Poisson manifold. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Poisson_manifold&oldid=19519
Poisson manifold. Encyclopedia of Mathematics. URL: http://encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php?title=Poisson_manifold&oldid=19519