Twisted Poincaré duality for orientable Poisson manifolds

TL;DR

The paper geometrizes algebraic Poisson (co)homology with coefficients on orientable Poisson manifolds and proves an explicit chain isomorphism between the Poisson cochain complex with coefficients in a Poisson geometric module and the Poisson chain complex with twisted coefficients by the modular vector field. This yields a twisted Poincaré duality: $HP^{k}(M,W)\cong HP_{n-k}(M,W_{-φ})$ for $0\le k\le n$, and analogous statements for flat $T^{*}M$-connections, unifying and extending Evens-Lu-Weinstein and Xu dualities to the geometric setting. The methodology hinges on geometrizing Poisson chain complexes, exploiting modular twisting, and establishing a precise chain isomorphism implemented by the orientation operator $star_W^k$. The results connect algebraic and geometric Poisson (co)homology, generalize duality theorems to orientable unimodular scenarios, and provide a robust framework for twisted Poisson modules in differential geometry.

Abstract

We geometrize the constructions of twisted Poisson modules introduced by Luo-Wang-Wu, and Poisson chain complexes with coefficients in Poisson modules defined in the algebraic setting to the geometric setting of Poisson manifolds. We then prove that for any orientable Poisson manifold $M$, there is an explicit chain isomorphism between the Poisson cochain complex with coefficients in any Poisson geometric module and the Poisson chain complex with coefficients in the corresponding twisted Poisson geometric module, induced by a modular vector field of $M$. These are the geometric analogues of results obtained by Luo-Wang-Wu for smooth Poisson algebras with trivial canonical bundle. In particular, a version of twisted Poincaré duality is established between the Poisson homologies and the Poisson cohomologies of an orientable Poisson manifold with coefficients in an arbitrary vector bundle with a flat contravariant connection. This generalizes the duality theorems for orientable Poisson manifolds established by Evens-Lu-Weinstein, and by Xu.

Theorems & Definitions (67)

• Theorem
• Lemma 1.1
• Definition 1.2: See MR0861121MR4221224.
• Remark 1.3
• Example 1.4
• Remark 1.5
• Proposition 1.6
• proof
• Lemma 1.7
• proof