Second order differential invariants of linear frames.
We consider the problem of prolongating general connections on arbitrary fibered manifolds with respect to a product preserving bundle functor. Our main tools are the theory of Weil algebras and the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket.
We present some lifts (associated to a product preserving gauge bundle functor on vector bundles) of sections of the dual bundle of a vector bundle, some derivations and linear connections on vector bundles.
We establish a formula for the Schouten-Nijenhuis bracket of linear liftings of skew-symmetric tensor fields to any Weil bundle. As a result we obtain a construction of some liftings of Poisson structures to Weil bundles.