The standard cohomology of regular Courant algebroids

Abstract

For any regular Courant algebroid $E$ over a smooth manifold $M$ with characteristic distribution $F$ and ample Lie algebroid $A_E$, we prove that there exists a canonical homological vector field on the graded manifold $A_E[1]\oplus (TM/F{)}^{\ast }[2]$ such that the resulting dg manifold ${\mathcal{M}}_E$, which we call the minimal model of the Courant algebroid $E$, encodes all cohomological information of $E$. Indeed, the standard cohomology of $E$ can be identified with the cohomology of the function space on ${\mathcal{M}}_E$, which can be computed by a Hodge-to-de Rham type spectral sequence. We apply this result to generalized exact Courant algebroids and those arising from regular Lie algebroids.

40 pages. Final version. To appear in Advances in Mathematics

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