For natural numbers n ≥ 3 and r a complete description of all natural bilinear operators $T*{\times }_{ℳfₙ}{T}^{(0,0)}⇝T^{(0,0)}{T}^{\left(r\right)}$ is presented. Next for natural numbers r and n ≥ 3 a full classification of all natural linear operators $T{*}_{|ℳfₙ}⇝T{T}^{\left(r\right)}$ is obtained.

We prove that the problem of finding all $ℳf_m$-natural operators $B:Q⟿Q{T}^A$ lifting classical linear connections ∇ on m-manifolds M to classical linear connections $B_M\left(\nabla \right)$ on the Weil bundle $T^{A}M$ corresponding to a p-dimensional (over ℝ) Weil algebra A is equivalent to the one of finding all $ℳf_m$-natural operators $C:Q⟿(T{¹}_{p-1},T*\otimes T*\otimes T)$ transforming classical linear connections ∇ on m-manifolds M into base-preserving fibred maps $C_M\left(\nabla \right):T{¹}_{p-1}M={⨁}_M^{p-1}TM\to T*M\otimes T*M\otimes TM$.

Let F:ℳ f→ ℬ be a vector bundle functor. First we classify all natural operators $T_{|ℳfₙ}⇝T^{(0,0)}\left(F_{|ℳfₙ}\right)*$ transforming vector fields to functions on the dual bundle functor $\left(F_{|ℳfₙ}\right)*$. Next, we study the natural operators $T{*}_{|ℳfₙ}⇝T*\left(F_{|ℳfₙ}\right)*$ lifting 1-forms to $\left(F_{|ℳfₙ}\right)*$. As an application we classify the natural operators $T{*}_{|ℳfₙ}⇝T*\left(F_{|ℳfₙ}\right)*$ for some well known vector bundle functors F.

All natural operators A transforming a linear vector field X on a vector bundle E into a vector field A(X) on the r-jet prolongation $J^{r}E$ of E are given. Similar results are deduced for the r-jet prolongations $J_v^{r}E$ and $J^{\left[r\right]}E$ in place of $J^{r}E$.

Let F:ℱ ℳ → ℬ be a vector bundle functor. First we classify all natural operators $T_{proj|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}⇝T^{(0,0)}\left(F_{|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}\right)*$ transforming projectable vector fields on Y to functions on the dual bundle (FY)* for any $ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}$-object Y. Next, under some assumption on F we study natural operators $T{*}_{hor|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}⇝T*\left(F_{|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}\right)*$ lifting horizontal 1-forms on Y to 1-forms on (FY)* for any Y as above. As an application we classify natural operators $T{*}_{hor|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}⇝T*\left(F_{|ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}}\right)*$ for some vector bundle functors F on fibered manifolds.

We classify all $ℱ{ℳ}_{m,n}$-natural operators $:J²⟿J²V^A$ transforming second order connections Γ: Y → J²Y on a fibred manifold Y → M into second order connections $\left(\Gamma \right):V^{A}Y\to J²V^{A}Y$ on the vertical Weil bundle $V^{A}Y\to M$ corresponding to a Weil algebra A.

We extend the concept of r-order connections on fibred manifolds to the one of (r,s,q)-order projectable connections on fibred-fibred manifolds, where r,s,q are arbitrary non-negative integers with s ≥ r ≤ q. Similarly to the fibred manifold case, given a bundle functor F of order r on (m₁,m₂,n₁,n₂)-dimensional fibred-fibred manifolds Y → M, we construct a general connection ℱ(Γ,Λ):FY → J¹FY on FY → M from a projectable general (i.e. (1,1,1)-order) connection $\Gamma :Y\to J^{1,1,1}Y$ on Y → M by means of an...

We study the problem of how a map f:M → ℝ on an n-manifold M induces canonically an affinor $A\left(f\right):T{T}^{\left(r\right)}M\to T{T}^{\left(r\right)}M$ on the vector r-tangent bundle $T^{\left(r\right)}M=\left(J^r(M,ℝ)₀\right)*$ over M. This problem is reflected in the concept of natural operators $A:T_{|ℳfₙ}^{(0,0)}⇝T^{(1,1)}{T}^{\left(r\right)}$. For integers r ≥ 1 and n ≥ 2 we prove that the space of all such operators is a free (r+1)²-dimensional module over ${}^{\infty }\left(T^{\left(r\right)}ℝ\right)$ and we construct explicitly a basis of this module.

Let m and r be natural numbers and let $P^r:ℳf_m\to ℱℳ$ be the rth order frame bundle functor. Let $F:ℳf_m\to ℱℳ$ and $G:ℳf_k\to ℱℳ$ be natural bundles, where $k=dim\left(P^r{ℝ}^m\right)$. We describe all $ℳf_m$-natural operators A transforming sections σ of $FM\to M$ and classical linear connections ∇ on M into sections A(σ,∇) of $G\left(P^{r}M\right)\to P^{r}M$. We apply this general classification result to many important natural bundles F and G and obtain many particular classifications.

Some properties and applications of natural vector bundle morphisms $T_A\circ {⨂}_s^q\to {⨂}_s^q\circ T_A$ over $i{d}_{T_A}$ are presented.

Let $J^{r}T*M$ be the r-jet prolongation of the cotangent bundle of an n-dimensional manifold M and let $(J^{r}T*M)*$ be the dual vector bundle. For natural numbers r and n, a complete classification of all linear natural operators lifting 1-forms from M to 1-forms on $(J^{r}T*M)*$ is given.

It is well known that the concept of holonomic $r$-jet can be geometrically characterized in terms of the contact of individual curves. However, this is not true for the semiholonomic $r$-jets, [5], [8]. In the present paper, we discuss systematically the semiholonomic case.

We classify all ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $A$ transforming projectable-projectable torsion-free classical linear connections $\nabla$ on fibered-fibered manifolds $Y$ of dimension $(m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2)$ into $r$th order Lagrangians $A\left(r\right)$ on the fibered-fibered linear frame bundle $L^{fib-fib}\left(Y\right)$ on $Y$. Moreover, we classify all ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $B$ transforming projectable-projectable torsion-free classical linear connections r on fiberedfibered manifolds $Y$ of dimension $(m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2)$ into Euler morphism $B\left(\nabla \right)$ on $L^{fib-fib}\left(Y\right)$. These classifications can be expanded on...

Let Y → M be a fibred manifold with m-dimensional base and n-dimensional fibres. Let r, m,n be positive integers. We present a construction $B^r$ of rth order holonomic connections $B^r(\Gamma ,\nabla ):Y\to J^{r}Y$ on Y → M from general connections Γ:Y → J¹Y on Y → M by means of torsion free classical linear connections ∇ on M. Then we prove that any construction B of rth order holonomic connections $B(\Gamma ,\nabla ):Y\to J^{r}Y$ on Y → M from general connections Γ:Y → J¹Y on Y → M by means of torsion free classical linear connections ∇ on M is equal...

Let r and n be natural numbers. For n ≥ 2 all natural operators $T_{|ℳfₙ}⇝T*T^{r*}$ transforming vector fields on n-manifolds M to 1-forms on $T^{r*}M=J^r(M,ℝ)₀$ are classified. For n ≥ 3 all natural operators $T_{|ℳfₙ}⇝\Lambda ²T*T^{r*}$ transforming vector fields on n-manifolds M to 2-forms on $T^{r*}M$ are completely described.

We describe all ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $D:Q_{proj-proj}^{\tau }⇝Q{T}^{*}$ transforming projectable-projectable classical torsion-free linear connections $\nabla$ on fibred-fibred manifolds $Y$ into classical linear connections $D\left(\nabla \right)$ on cotangent bundles $T^{*}Y$ of $Y$. We show that this problem can be reduced to finding ${ℱ}^2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operators $D:Q_{proj-proj}^{\tau }⇝(T^{*},{\otimes }^p{T}^{*}\otimes {\otimes }^{q}T)$ for $p=2$, $q=1$ and $p=3$, $q=0$.

Let $ℳf_m$ be the category of $m$-dimensional manifolds and local diffeomorphisms and  let $T$ be the tangent functor on $ℳf_m$. Let $𝒱$ be the category of real vector spaces and linear maps and let ${𝒱}_m$ be the category of $m$-dimensional real vector spaces and linear isomorphisms. We characterize all regular covariant functors $F:{𝒱}_m\to 𝒱$ admitting $ℳf_m$-natural operators $\tilde{J}$ transforming classical linear connections $\nabla$ on $m$-dimensional manifolds $M$ into almost complex structures $\tilde{J}\left(\nabla \right)$ on $F\left(T\right)M={\bigcup }_{x\in M}F\left(T_{x}M\right)$.

We describe all natural operators lifting nowhere vanishing vector fields X on m-dimensional manifolds M to vector fields (X) on the rth order frame bundle $L^{r}M=invJ{₀}^r({ℝ}^m,M)$ over M. Next, we describe all natural operators lifting vector fields X on m-manifolds M to vector fields on $L^{r}M$. In both cases we deduce that the spaces of all operators in question form free $(m(C_r^{m+r}-1)+1)$-dimensional modules over algebras of all smooth maps $J{₀}^{r-1}T̃{ℝ}^m\to ℝ$ and $J{₀}^{r-1}T{ℝ}^m\to ℝ$ respectively, where $C{ⁿ}_k=n!/(n-k)!k!$. We explicitly construct bases of these modules. In particular,...

We introduce the definition of $p$-limited completely continuous operators, $1\le p<\infty$. The question of whether a space of operators has the property that every $p$-limited subset is relative compact when the dual of the domain and the codomain have this property is studied using $p$-limited completely continuous evaluation operators.

In this paper the hyponormal operators on Krein spaces are introduced. We state conditions for the hyponormality of bounded operators focusing, in particular, on those operators $T$ for which there exists a fundamental decomposition $𝕂={𝕂}^{+}\oplus {𝕂}^{-}$ of the Krein space $𝕂$ with ${𝕂}^{+}$ and ${𝕂}^{-}$ invariant under $T$.

Let m,n be positive integers such that m < n and let G(n,m) be the Grassmann manifold of all m-dimensional subspaces of ℝⁿ. For V ∈ G(n,m) let ${\pi }_V$ denote the orthogonal projection from ℝⁿ onto V. The following characterization of purely unrectifiable sets holds. Let A be an ${}^m$-measurable subset of ℝⁿ with ${}^m\left(A\right)<\infty$. Then A is purely m-unrectifiable if and only if there exists a null subset Z of the universal bundle $(V,v)\left|V\in G\right(n,m),v\in V$ such that, for all P ∈ A, one has ${}^{m(n-m)}\left(V\in G(n,m)\left|\right(V,{\pi }_V\left(P\right))\in Z\right)>0$. One can replace “for all P ∈ A” by “for...

Results of Emmanuele and Drewnowski are used to study the containment of c₀ in the space $K_{w*}(X*,Y)$, as well as the complementation of the space $K_{w*}(X*,Y)$ of w*-w compact operators in the space $L_{w*}(X*,Y)$ of w*-w operators from X* to Y.

We first prove a strengthening of Miyaoka’s generic semi-positivity theorem: the quotients of the tensor powers of the cotangent bundle of a non-uniruled complex projective manifold $X$ have a pseudo-effective (instead of generically nef) determinant. A first consequence is that $X$ is of general type if its cotangent bundle contains a subsheaf with ‘big’ determinant. Among other applications, we deduce that if the universal cover of $X$ is not covered by compact positive-dimensional analytic...

We prove that any first order ${ℱ}_2{ℳ}_{m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2}$-natural operator transforming projectable general connections on an $(m_1,m_2,n_1,n_2)$-dimensional fibred-fibred manifold $p=(p,p):(p_Y:Y\to Y)\to (p_M:M\to M)$ into general connections on the vertical prolongation $VY\to M$ of $p:Y\to M$ is the restriction of the (rather well-known) vertical prolongation operator $𝒱$ lifting general connections $\overline{\Gamma }$ on a fibred manifold $Y\to M$ into $𝒱\overline{\Gamma }$ (the vertical prolongation of $\overline{\Gamma }$) on $VY\to M$.

Let $M$ be an $m$-dimensional manifold and $A={𝔻}_k^r/I=ℝ\oplus N_A$ a Weil algebra of height $r$. We prove that any $A$-covelocity $T_x^{A}f\in T_x^{A*}M$, $x\in M$ is determined by its values over arbitrary $max\{\mathrm{width}A,m\}$ regular and under the first jet projection linearly independent elements of $T_x^{A}M$. Further, we prove the rigidity of the so-called universally reparametrizable Weil algebras. Applying essentially those partial results we give the proof of the general rigidity result $T^{A*}M\simeq T^{r*}M$ without coordinate computations, which improves and generalizes the partial...

We describe all ${}_m\left(G\right)$-gauge-natural operators lifting right-invariant vector fields X on principal G-bundles P → M with m-dimensional bases into vector fields (X) on the rth order principal prolongation $W^{r}P=P^{r}M{\times }_M{J}^{r}P$ of P → M. In other words, we classify all ${}_m\left(G\right)$-natural transformations $J^{r}LP{\times }_M{W}^{r}P\to T{W}^{r}P=L{W}^{r}P{\times }_M{W}^{r}P$ covering the identity of $W^{r}P$, where $J^{r}LP$ is the r-jet prolongation of the Lie algebroid LP=TP/G of P, i.e. we find all ${}_m\left(G\right)$-natural transformations which are similar to the Kumpera-Spencer isomorphism $J^{r}LP=L{W}^{r}P$. We formulate axioms which...

We give a classification of all linear natural operators transforming $p$-vectors (i.e., skew-symmetric tensor fields of type $(p,0)$) on $n$-dimensional manifolds $M$ to tensor fields of type $(q,0)$ on $T^{A}M$, where $T^A$ is a Weil bundle, under the condition that $p\ge 1$, $n\ge p$ and $n\ge q$. The main result of the paper states that, roughly speaking, each linear natural operator lifting $p$-vectors to tensor fields of type $(q,0)$ on $T^A$ is a sum of operators obtained by permuting the indices of the tensor products of linear natural...

A regular normal parabolic geometry of type $G/P$ on a manifold $M$ gives rise to sequences $D_i$ of invariant differential operators, known as the curved version of the BGG resolution. These sequences are constructed from the normal covariant derivative ${\nabla }^{\omega }$ on the corresponding tractor bundle $V$, where $\omega$ is the normal Cartan connection. The first operator $D_0$ in the sequence is overdetermined and it is well known that ${\nabla }^{\omega }$ yields the prolongation of this operator in the homogeneous case $M=G/P$. Our first...

We classify classical linear connections $A(\Gamma ,\Lambda ,\Theta )$ on the total space $Y$ of a fibred manifold $Y\to M$ induced in a natural way by the following three objects: a general connection $\Gamma$ in $Y\to M$, a classical linear connection $\Lambda$ on $M$ and a linear connection $\Theta$ in the vertical bundle $VY\to Y$. The main result says that if $\dim \left(M\right)\ge 3$ and $\dim \left(Y\right)-\dim \left(M\right)\ge 3$ then the natural operators $A$ under consideration form the $17$ dimensional affine space.

Let $X$ be a smooth projective curve of genus $g\ge 2$ defined over an algebraically closed field $k$ of characteristic $p\&gt;0$. Given a semistable vector bundle $E$ over $X$, we show that its direct image $F_{*}E$ under the Frobenius map $F$ of $X$ is again semistable. We deduce a numerical characterization of the stable rank-$p$ vector bundles $F_{*}L$, where $L$ is a line bundle over $X$.

If $(M,g)$ is a Riemannian manifold, we have the well-known base preserving   vector bundle isomorphism $TM\widetilde{=}{T}^{*}M$ given by $v\to g(v,-)$ between the tangent $TM$ and the cotangent $T^{*}M$ bundles of $M$. In the present note, we generalize this isomorphism to the one $T^{\left(r\right)}M\widetilde{=}{T}^{r*}M$ between the $r$-th order vector tangent $T^{\left(r\right)}M={\left(J^r{(M,R)}_0\right)}^{*}$ and the $r$-th order cotangent $T^{r*}M=J^r{(M,R)}_0$ bundles of $M$. Next, we describe all base preserving  vector bundle maps $C_M\left(g\right):T^{\left(r\right)}M\to T^{r*}M$ depending on a Riemannian metric $g$ in terms of natural (in $g$) tensor fields on $M$.