On the order of natural differential operators and liftings
For a linear r-th order connection on the tangent bundle we characterize geometrically its integrability in the sense of the theory of higher order G-structures. Our main tool is a bijection between these connections and the principal connections on the r-th order frame bundle and the comparison of the torsions under both approaches.
For every bundle functor we introduce the concept of subordinated functor. Then we describe subordinated functors for fiber product preserving functors defined on the category of fibered manifolds with -dimensional bases and fibered manifold morphisms with local diffeomorphisms as base maps. In this case we also introduce the concept of the underlying functor. We show that there is an affine structure on fiber product preserving functors.
In this paper we extend the variational calculus to fibered-fibered manifolds. Fibered-fibered manifolds are surjective fibered submersions π:Y → X between fibered manifolds. For natural numbers s ≥ r ≤ q with r ≥ 1 we define (r,s,q)th order Lagrangians on fibered-fibered manifolds π:Y → X as base-preserving morphisms . Then similarly to the fibered manifold case we define critical fibered sections of Y. Setting p=max(q,s) we prove that there exists a canonical “Euler” morphism of λ satisfying...