Courant Algebroids. A Short History

• Опубліковано в: : Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
• Дата: 2013
• Автор: Kosmann-Schwarzbach, Y.
• Формат: Стаття
• Мова: Англійська
• Опубліковано: Інститут математики НАН України 2013
• Онлайн доступ: https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/149218
• Назва журналу: Digital Library of Periodicals of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
• Цитувати: Courant Algebroids. A Short History / Y. Kosmann-Schwarzbach // Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications. — 2013. — Т. 9. — Бібліогр.: 55 назв. — англ.

The search for a geometric interpretation of the constrained brackets of Dirac led to the definition of the Courant bracket. The search for the right notion of a ''double'' for Lie bialgebroids led to the definition of Courant algebroids. We recount the emergence of these concept...