SIGMA 8 (2012), 076, 7 pages      arXiv:1210.5320      https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2012.076
Contribution to the Special Issue “Geometrical Methods in Mathematical Physics”

Recursion Operators and Frobenius Manifolds

Franco Magri
Dipartimento di Matematica ed Applicazioni, Università degli Studi di di Milano Bicocca, Via Roberto Cozzi 53, 20125 Milano, Italy

Received June 01, 2012, in final form October 05, 2012; Published online October 19, 2012

Abstract
In this note I exhibit a ''discrete homotopy'' which joins the category of F-manifolds to the category of Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds, passing through the category of Frobenius manifolds.

Key words: F-manifolds; Frobenius manifolds; Poisson-Nijenhuis manifolds.

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