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Divergence operators and odd Poisson brackets. (English) Zbl 1054.53094
Summary: We define the divergence operators on a graded algebra, and we show that, given an odd Poisson bracket on the algebra, the operator that maps an element to the divergence of the hamiltonian derivation that it defines is a generator of the bracket. This is the “odd Laplacian”, $$\Delta$$, of Batalin-Vilkovisky quantization. We then study the generators of odd Poisson brackets on supermanifolds, where divergences of graded vector fields can be defined either in terms of Berezinian volumes or of graded connections. Examples include generators of the Schouten bracket of multivectors on a manifold (the supermanifold being the cotangent bundle where the coordinates in the fibres are odd) and generators of the Koszul-Schouten bracket of forms on a Poisson manifold (the supermanifold being the tangent bundle, with odd coordinates on the fibres).

##### MSC:
 53D17 Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids 17B70 Graded Lie (super)algebras 17B63 Poisson algebras 58A50 Supermanifolds and graded manifolds 70G45 Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics 53C05 Connections, general theory
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