A Poisson vertex algebra is a unital commutative associative algebra with a derivation and a -bracket; it has to satisfy the axioms of a Lie conformal algebra; and the -bracket and the multiplication form a Poisson algebra (i.e. satisfy the Leibniz rule). It is a Poisson analogue of a conformal Lie algebra.
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A. De Sole, Poisson vertex algebras in the theory of Hamiltonian equations, Talk at Algebraic Lie Theory, Newton Inst. U. Cambridge 2009, video
Non-local Poisson vertex algebras are studied with applications to the study of integrability of Hamiltonian PDE-s in