## Graded contact manifolds and contact Courant algebroids.(English)Zbl 1280.53070

Summary: We develop a systematic approach to contact and Jacobi structures on graded supermanifolds. In this framework, contact structures are interpreted as symplectic principal $$\mathbb R^\times$$-bundles. Gradings compatible with the $$\mathbb R^\times$$-action lead to the concept of a graded contact manifold, in particular a linear (more generally, $$n$$-linear) contact structure. Linear contact structures are proven to be exactly the canonical contact structures on first-order jets of line bundles. They provide linear Kirillov (or Jacobi) brackets and give rise to the concept of a Kirillov algebroid, an analog of a Lie algebroid, for which the corresponding cohomology operator is represented not by a vector field (de Rham derivative) but by a first-order differential operator. It is shown that one can view Kirillov or Jacobi brackets as homological Hamiltonians on linear contact manifolds. Contact manifolds of degree 2, as well as contact analogs of Courant algebroids are studied. We define lifting procedures that provide us with constructions of canonical examples of the structures in question.

### MSC:

 53D10 Contact manifolds (general theory) 58A50 Supermanifolds and graded manifolds 53D05 Symplectic manifolds (general theory) 53D17 Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids 53D35 Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds 58C50 Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds 17B62 Lie bialgebras; Lie coalgebras 17B63 Poisson algebras
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