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Some Remarks on Dirac Structures and Poisson Reductions

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  1. Department of Mathematics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

Abstract

Dirac structures are characterized in terms of their characteristic pairs defined in this note and then Poisson reductions are discussed from the point of view of Dirac structures.

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Banach Center Publications
2000/51/1
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Pages:
165-173
Main language of publication
English
Published
2000
Exact and natural sciences