Poisson-Lie Group structures on semidirect products

Abstract

We look at the Poisson structure on the total space of the dual bundle to the Lie algebroid arising from a matched pair of Lie groups. This dual bundle, with the natural semidirect product group structure, becomes a Poisson-Lie group as suggested by a recent work of Stachura. Moreover, when we start from matched pairs given by the Iwasawa decomposition of simple Lie groups, the associated Lie bialgebra is coboundary.