Prolongation of tangent valued forms to Weil bundles

Antonella Cabras; Ivan Kolář

Archivum Mathematicum (1995)

  • Volume: 031, Issue: 2, page 139-145
  • ISSN: 0044-8753

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We prove that the so-called complete lifting of tangent valued forms from a manifold M to an arbitrary Weil bundle over M preserves the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket. We also deduce that the complete lifts of connections are torsion-free in the sense of M. Modugno and the second author.

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Cabras, Antonella, and Kolář, Ivan. "Prolongation of tangent valued forms to Weil bundles." Archivum Mathematicum 031.2 (1995): 139-145. <http://eudml.org/doc/247680>.

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