New solutions of the Jacobi equations for three-dimensional Poisson structures

A systematic investigation of the skew-symmetric solutions of the three-dimensional Jacobi equations is presented. As a result, three disjoint and complementary new families of solutions are characterized. Such families are very general, thus unifying many different and well-known Poisson structures seemingly unrelated which now appear embraced as particular cases of a more general solution. This unification is not only conceptual but allows the development of algorithms for the explicit determination of important properties such as the symplectic structure, the Casimir invariants and the Darboux canonical form, which are known only for a limited sample of Poisson structures. These common procedures are thus simultaneously valid for all the particular cases which can now be analyzed in a unified and more economic framework, instead of using a case-by-case approach. In addition, the methods developed are valid globally in phase space, thus amelio-rating the usual scope of Darboux' reduction which is only of local nature. Finally, the families of solutions found present some new nonlinear superposition principles which are characterized. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.SCOPUS: ar.j