Poisson-Lie Group structures on semidirect products

Abstract

We look at the Poisson structure on the total space of the dual bundle to the Lie algebroid arising from a matched pair of Lie groups. This dual bundle, with the natural semidirect product group structure, becomes a Poisson-Lie group as suggested by a recent work of Stachura. Moreover, when we start from matched pairs given by the Iwasawa decomposition of simple Lie groups, the associated Lie bialgebra is coboundary.

18 pages, accepted version, minor changes; v1: 17 pages