Poisson manifolds with compatible pseudo-metric and pseudo-Riemannian Lie algebras

Abstract

The notion of Poisson manifold with compatible pseudo-metric was introduced by the author in [1]. In this paper, we introduce a new class of Lie algebras which we call a pseudo-Rieamannian Lie algebras. The two notions are strongly related: we prove that a linear Poisson structure on the dual of a Lie algebra has a compatible pseudo-metric if and only if the Lie algebra is a pseudo-Riemannian Lie algebra, and that the Lie algebra obtained by linearizing at a point a Poisson manifold with compatible pseudo-metric is a pseudo-Riemannian Lie algebra. Furthermore, we give some properties of the symplectic leaves of such manifolds, and we prove that every Poisson manifold with compatible metric (every Riemann-Lie algebra) is unimodular. As a final, we classify all pseudo-Riemannian Lie algebras of dimension 2 and 3.