Providing an appropriate definition of a horizontal subbundle of a Lie algebroid will lead to construction of a better framework on Lie algebriods. In this paper, we give a new and natural definition of a horizontal subbundle using the prolongation of a Lie algebroid and then we show that any linear connection on a Lie algebroid generates a horizontal subbundle and vice versa. The same correspo...

In this paper, we will study compatible triples on Lie algebroids. Using a suitable decomposition for a Lie algebroid, we construct an integrable generalized distribution on the base manifold. As a result, the symplectic form on the Lie algebroid induces a symplectic form on each integral submanifold of the distribution. The induced Poisson structure on the base manifold can be represented by m...

We show that every transitive Lie algebroid over a connected symplectic manifold comes from an intrinsic Lie algebroid of a symplectic leaf of a certain Poisson structure. The reconstruction of the corresponding Poisson structures from the Lie algebroid is given in terms of coupling tensors.

We complete the construction of the double Lie algebroid of a double Lie groupoid begun in the first paper of this title. We extend the construction of the tangent pro-longation of an abstract Lie algebroid to show that the Lie algebroid structure of any LA-groupoid may be prolonged to the Lie algebroid of its groupoid structure. In the case of a double groupoid, this prolonged structure for ei...

A Q-algebroid is a Lie superalgebroid equipped with a compatible homological vector field and is the infinitesimal object corresponding to a Q-groupoid. We associate to every Q-algebroid a double complex. As a special case, we define the BRST model of a Lie algebroid, which generalizes the BRST model for equivariant cohomology. We extend to this setting the Mathai-Quillen-Kalkman isomorphism of...

Considering prolongation of a Lie algebroid equipped with a spray, defining some classical tensors, we show that a Lie symmetry of a spray is a curvature collineation for these tensors.

We show that every Lie algebroid A over a manifold P has a natural representation on the line bundle QA = ∧topA⊗ ∧topT ∗P . The line bundle QA may be viewed as the Lie algebroid analog of the orientation bundle in topology, and sections of QA may be viewed as transverse measures to A. As a consequence, there is a well-defined class in the first Lie algebroid cohomology H(A) called the modular c...

A generalized Courant algebroid structure is defined on the direct sum bundle DE ⊕ JE, where DE and JE are the gauge Lie algebroid and the jet bundle of a vector bundle E respectively. Such a structure is called an omni-Lie algebroid since it is reduced to the omni-Lie algebra introduced by A.Weinstein if the base manifold is a point. We prove that any Lie algebroid structure on E is characteri...

We approach Mackenzie’s LA-groupoids from a supergeometric point of view by introducing Q-groupoids. A Q-groupoid is a groupoid object in the category of Q-manifolds, and there is a faithful functor from the category of LA-groupoids to the category of Q-groupoids. Using this approach, we associate to every LA-groupoid a double complex whose cohomology simultaneously generalizes Lie groupoid coh...