References & Citations
Differential Geometry
Title: Classical lifting processes and multiplicative vector fields
(Submitted on 28 Oct 1997)
Abstract: We extend the calculus of multiplicative vector fields and differential forms and their intrinsic derivatives from Lie groups to Lie groupoids; this generalization turns out to include also the classical process of complete lifting from arbitrary manifolds to tangent and cotangent bundles. Using this calculus we give a new description of the Lie bialgebroid structure associated with a Poisson groupoid.