Lifts of derivations to the frame bundle
The second order transverse bundle of a foliated manifold carries a natural structure of a smooth manifold over the algebra of truncated polynomials of degree two in one variable. Prolongations of foliated mappings to second order transverse bundles are a partial case of more general -smooth foliated mappings between second order transverse bundles. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions under which a -smooth foliated diffeomorphism between two second order transverse bundles maps...
We study lightlike hypersurfaces of an indefinite Kaehler manifold of quasi-constant curvature subject to the condition that the characteristic vector field of is tangent to . First, we provide a new result for such a lightlike hypersurface. Next, we investigate such a lightlike hypersurface of such that (1) the screen distribution is totally umbilical or (2) is screen conformal.
In this paper we study the geometry of direct connections in smooth vector bundles (see N. Teleman [Tn.3]); we show that the infinitesimal part, , of a direct connection τ is a linear connection. We determine the curvature tensor of the associated linear connection As an application of these results, we present a direct proof of N. Teleman’s Theorem 6.2 [Tn.3], which shows that it is possible to represent the Chern character of smooth vector bundles as the periodic cyclic homology class of a...