A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de Condordet, nous rappelons la théorie du motif de croire du fondateur de la Mathématique sociale, théorie qui seule peut nous assurer de la «réalité» des vérités auxquelles nous conduit le calcul des probabilités , comme de toute autre espèce de vérités, s'il s'en trouve.
List of ParticipantsOrganizing committee: Vasil Tsanov – Sofia University (Chairman), Harry Aleksiev – High School for Management and Laguages in Zlatograd (Local Organizer), Leon Farhy – Sofia University (Scientific Secretary), Emil Horozov – Sofia University, Ivailo Mladenov – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Angel Zhivkov – Sofia University.
Summary: Geometrical concepts induced by a smooth mapping of manifolds with linear connections are introduced, especially the (higher order) covariant differentials of the mapping tangent to and the curvature of a corresponding tensor product connection. As an useful and physically meaningful consequence a basis of differential invariants for natural operators of such smooth mappings is obtained for metric connections. A relation to geometry of Riemannian manifolds is discussed.
A non-holonomic 3-web is defined by two operators and such that is a projector, is involutory, and they are connected via the relation . The so-called parallelizing connection with respect to which the 3-web distributions are parallel is defined. Some simple properties of such connections are found.
Geometric constructions of connections on the higher order principal prolongations of a principal bundle are considered. Moreover, the existing differences among connections on non-holonomic, semiholonomic and holonomic principal prolongations are discussed.