Poisson manifold
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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: $$ \{f,gh\}=\{f,g\}h+g\{f,h\},\qquad \forall f,g,h\in C^\infty(M).$$
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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