Courant Algebroids. A Short History
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...
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| Language: | English |
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National Academy of Science of Ukraine
2013-02-01
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| Series: | Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2013.014 |