Twisted Poincar\'e duality for orientable Poisson manifolds

TL;DR

This paper establishes a geometric version of twisted Poincaré duality for orientable Poisson manifolds, linking Poisson homology and cohomology via modular vector fields and twisted modules.

Contribution

It generalizes previous algebraic results to the geometric setting, providing explicit chain isomorphisms and a duality theorem for orientable Poisson manifolds.

Findings

Explicit chain isomorphism between Poisson cochain and chain complexes

Twisted Poincaré duality for Poisson homology and cohomology

Generalization of duality theorems to arbitrary vector bundles with flat connections

Abstract

We geometrize the constructions of twisted Poisson modules introduced by Luo-Wang-Wu, and Poisson chain complexes with coefficients in Poisson modules defined in the algebraic setting to the geometric setting of Poisson manifolds. We then prove that for any orientable Poisson manifold $M$, there is an explicit chain isomorphism between the Poisson cochain complex with coefficients in any Poisson geometric module and the Poisson chain complex with coefficients in the corresponding twisted Poisson geometric module, induced by a modular vector field of $M$. These are the geometric analogues of results obtained by Luo-Wang-Wu for smooth Poisson algebras with trivial canonical bundle. In particular, a version of twisted Poincar\'e duality is established between the Poisson homologies and the Poisson cohomologies of an orientable Poisson manifold with coefficients in an arbitrary vector bundle with a flat contravariant connection. This generalizes the duality theorems for orientable Poisson manifolds established by Evens-Lu-Weinstein, and by Xu.