Automorphisms of Ehresmann connections

DOI10.1007/S10474-008-8139-XMaRDI QIDQ1046911zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. Pék, József Szilasi

Publication date 29 December 2009

Published in Acta Mathematica Hungarica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10474-008-8139-x

zbMATH Keywords

automorphismEhresmann connectionstrong torsiontotally geodesic map

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Geodesics in global differential geometry (53C22)

Review text

It is proved that a diffeomorphism \(\varphi\) of a manifold \(M\) is an automorphism of the Ehresmann connection \(\mathcal H\) if and only if (a) \(\varphi\) is an automorphism of the semispray \(S:=\mathcal H\circ \delta\), where \(\delta :v\in TM \mapsto (v,v)\in TM\times_M TM\), and (b) \(\varphi \circ T^s=T^s \circ \varphi\), where \(T^s\) is the strong torsion of \(\mathcal H\). From this, it follows that \(\varphi\) is an automorphism of \(\mathcal H\) if and only if \(\varphi\) is an affinity, that is, preserves the geodesics of \(\mathcal H\), and satisfies (b). This result generalizes and to some extent strengthens the classical theorem on automorphisms of a manifold with covariant derivation.

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