Conformal Dirac structures

Letters in Mathematical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 331-348

  Wade, Aïssa ^a  

^a The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Courant bracket; Dirac structure; Jacobi manifold; Lie algebroid; Poisson algebra

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040519937     PISSN: 03779017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007634407701     Document Type: Article

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