General Nijenhuis tensor: an example of a secondary invariant
The author considers the Nijenhuis map assigning to two type (1,1) tensor fields , a mapping where , are vector fields. Then is a type (2,1) tensor field (Nijenhuis tensor) if and only if . Considering a smooth manifold with a smooth action of a Lie group, a secondary invariant may be defined as a mapping whose area of invariance is restricted to the inverse image of an invariant subset of under another invariant mapping. The author recognizes a secondary invariant related to the...