Tractor calculi for parabolic geometries

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-01-02909-9zbMath0997.53016OpenAlexW1509024364WikidataQ56019367 ScholiaQ56019367MaRDI QIDQ2781372

A. Rod Gover, Andreas Čap

Publication date: 19 March 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-01-02909-9

zbMATH Keywords

tractor calculusparabolic geometryinvariant differential operatortractor bundleCartan connectioninvariant calculus

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) CR structures, CR operators, and generalizations (32V05) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Projective differential geometry (53A20) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Other connections (53B15) Other special differential geometries (53A40)

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