In this paper we introduce a new method for approaching the C^0 - rigidity results for the Poisson bracket. Using this method, we provide a different proof for the lower semi-continuity under C^0 perturbations, for the uniform norm of the Poisson bracket. We find the precise rate for the modulus of the semi-continuity. This extends the previous results of Cardin-Viterbo, Zapolsky, Entov and Polterovich. Using our method, we prove a C^0 - rigidity result in the spirit of the work of Humiliere. We also discuss a general question of the C^0 - rigidity for multilinear differential operators.
L. Buhovsky, A. Logunov and S. Tanny proved the (strong) Poisson bracket conjecture by Leonid Polterovich in dimension $2$. In this note, instead of open cover consisting of displaceable sets in their work, we consider open cover constituted of topological discs and give a necessary and sufficient condition that Poisson bracket invariants of these covers are positive.
Poisson brackets admit infinitesimal symmetries which are encoded using oriented graphs; this construction is due to Kontsevich (1996). We formulate several open problems about combinatorial and topological properties of the graphs involved, about integrability and analytic properties of such symmetry flows (in particular, for known classes of Poisson brackets), and about cohomological, differential geometric, and quantum aspects of the theory. Keywords: Poisson bracket, Jacobi identity, infinitesimal symmetry, affine manifold, Poisson cohomology, graph complex.
For a particle in the magnetic field of a cloud of monopoles, the naturally associated 2-form on phase space is not closed, and so the corresponding bracket operation on functions does not satisfy the Jacobi identity. Thus, it is not a Poisson bracket; however, it is twisted Poisson in the sense that the Jacobiator comes from a closed 3-form. The space $\mathcal D$ of densities on phase space is the state space of a plasma. The twisted Poisson bracket on phase-space functions gives rise to a bracket on functions on $\mathcal D$. In the absence of monopoles, this is again a Poisson bracket. It …