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Poisson structures on the Lorentz group

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Poisson-Lie structures on the Lorentz group are completely classified. A method applicable to an arbitrary semisimple complex Lie group (treated as real) is developed.

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Zakrzewski, S. Poisson structures on the Lorentz group. Lett Math Phys 32, 11–23 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00761120

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