ANALOGUES OF THE OBJECTS OF LIE GROUP THEORY FOR NONLINEAR POISSON BRACKETS

Abstract

For general degenerate Poisson brackets, analogues are constructed of invariant vector fields, invariant forms, Haar measure and adjoint representation. A pseudogroup operation is defined that corresponds to nonlinear Poisson brackets, and analogues are obtained for the three classical theorems of Lie. The problem of constructing global pseudogroups is examined.