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Infinitesimal automorphisms and deformations of parabolic geometries

Andreas Čap — 2008

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

We show that infinitesimal automorphisms and infinitesimal deformations of parabolic geometries can be nicely described in terms of the twisted de Rham sequence associated to a certain linear connection on the adjoint tractor bundle. For regular normal geometries, this description can be related to the underlying geometric structure using the machinery of BGG sequences. In the locally flat case, this leads to a deformation complex, which generalizes the well known complex for locally conformally...

On left invariant CR structures on SU ( 2 )

Andreas Čap — 2006

Archivum Mathematicum

There is a well known one–parameter family of left invariant CR structures on S U ( 2 ) S 3 . We show how purely algebraic methods can be used to explicitly compute the canonical Cartan connections associated to these structures and their curvatures. We also obtain explicit descriptions of tractor bundles and tractor connections.

Natural operators between vector valued differential forms

Cap, Andreas — 1991

Proceedings of the Winter School "Geometry and Physics"

[For the entire collection see Zbl 0742.00067.]This paper is devoted to a method permitting to determine explicitly all multilinear natural operators between vector-valued differential forms and between sections of several other natural vector bundles.

Some special geometry in dimension six

Čap, AndreasEastwood, Michael — 2003

Proceedings of the 22nd Winter School "Geometry and Physics"

Motivated by the study of CR-submanifolds of codimension  2 in  4 , the authors consider here a 6 -dimensional oriented manifold  M equipped with a 4 -dimensional distribution. Under some non-degeneracy condition, two different geometric situations can occur. In the elliptic case, one constructs a canonical almost complex structure on  M ; the hyperbolic case leads to a canonical almost product structure. In both cases the only local invariants are given by the obstructions to integrability for these structures....

On local flatness of manifolds with AHS-structures

Čap, AndreasSlovák, Jan — 1996

Proceedings of the 15th Winter School "Geometry and Physics"

Summary: The AHS-structures on manifolds are the simplest cases of the so called parabolic geometries which are modeled on homogeneous spaces corresponding to a parabolic subgroup in a semisimple Lie group. It covers the cases where the negative parts of the graded Lie algebras in question are abelian. In the series the authors developed a consistent frame bundle approach to the subject. Here we give explicit descriptions of the obstructions against the flatness of such structures based on the latter...

Characteristic classes for A -bundles

Cap, AndreasSchichl, Hermann — 1996

Proceedings of the Winter School "Geometry and Physics"

The authors generalize a construction of Connes by defining for an A -bundle E over smooth manifold X and a reduced cyclic cohomology class c a sequence of de Rham cohomology classes c h c k ( E ) . Here A is a convenient algebra, defined by the authors, and E is a locally trivial bundle with standard fibre a right finitely generated projective A -module and bounded A -modules homomorphisms as transition functions.

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