L-infinity bialgebroids and homotopy Poisson structures on supermanifolds

Abstract

We generalize to the homotopy case a result of K. Mackenzie and P. Xu on relation between Lie bialgebroids and Poisson geometry. For a homotopy Poisson structure on a supermanifold $M$, we show that $(TM, T^*M)$ has a canonical structure of an $L_{\infty}$-bialgebroid. (Higher Koszul brackets on forms introduced earlier by H. Khudaverdian and the author are part of one of its manifestations.) The underlying general construction is that of a "(quasi)triangular" $L_{\infty}$-bialgebroid, which is a specialization of a "(quasi)triangular" homotopy Poisson structure. We define both here.