On the Real Homotopy Type of Generalized Complex Nilmanifolds

We prove that for any n≥4, there are infinitely many real homotopy types of 2n-dimensional nilmanifolds admitting generalized complex structures of every type k, for 0≤k≤n.

Splitting theorems for Poisson and related structures

According to the Weinstein splitting theorem, any Poisson manifold is locally, near any given point, a product of a symplectic manifold with another Poisson manifold whose Poisson structure vanishes at the point. Similar splitting results are known, e.g., for Lie algebroids, Dirac structures and generalized complex structures. In this paper, we develop a novel approach towards these results that leads to various generalizations, including their equivariant versions as well as their formulations in new contexts.

Some remarks on invariant Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis structures on Lie groups

We study right-invariant (respectively, left-invariant) Poisson quasi-Nijenhuis structures on a Lie group [Formula: see text] and introduce their infinitesimal counterpart, the so-called r-qn structures on the corresponding Lie algebra [Formula: see text]. We investigate the procedure of the classification of such structures on the Lie algebras and then for clarity of our results we classify, up to a natural equivalence, all [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] structures on two types of four-dimensional real Lie algebras. We mention some remarks on the relation between [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] structures and the generalized complex structures on the Lie algebras [Formula: see text] and also the solutions of modified Yang–Baxter equation (MYBE) on the double of Lie bialgebra [Formula: see text]. The results are applied to some relevant examples.

Geometry and Physics: Volume II

These volumes contain the proceedings of the conference held at Aarhus, Oxford and Madrid in September 2016 to mark the seventieth birthday of Nigel Hitchin, one of the world’s foremost geometers and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. The proceedings contain twenty-nine articles, including three by Fields medallists (Donaldson, Mori and Yau). The articles cover a wide range of topics in geometry and mathematical physics, including the following: Riemannian geometry, geometric analysis, special holonomy, integrable systems, dynamical systems, generalized complex structures, symplectic and Poisson geometry, low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, Higgs bundles, geometric Langlands programme, mirror symmetry and string theory. These volumes will be of interest to researchers and graduate students both in geometry and mathematical physics.

Geometry and Physics: Volume I

These volumes contain the proceedings of the conference held at Aarhus, Oxford and Madrid in September 2016 to mark the seventieth birthday of Nigel Hitchin, one of the world’s foremost geometers and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford. The proceedings contain twenty-nine articles, including three by Fields medallists (Donaldson, Mori and Yau). The articles cover a wide range of topics in geometry and mathematical physics, including the following: Riemannian geometry, geometric analysis, special holonomy, integrable systems, dynamical systems, generalized complex structures, symplectic and Poisson geometry, low-dimensional topology, algebraic geometry, moduli spaces, Higgs bundles, geometric Langlands programme, mirror symmetry and string theory. These volumes will be of interest to researchers and graduate students both in geometry and mathematical physics.

Classification of Boundary Lefschetz Fibrations over the Disc

This chapter shows that a 4-manifold admits a boundary Lefschetz fibration over the disc if and only if it is diffeomorphic to S1×S3#nCP¯2,#mCP2#nCP¯2 or #m(S2×S2). Given the relation between boundary Lefschetz fibrations and stable generalized complex structures, the chapter concludes that the 4-manifolds S1×S3#nCP¯2,#(2m+1)CP2#nCP¯2 and #(2m+1)S2×S2 admit stable generalized complex structures whose type change locus has a single component and are the only 4-manifolds whose stable structure arises from boundary Lefschetz fibrations over the disc.