CONNECTIONS FOR GENERAL GROUP ACTIONS

DOI10.1142/S0219199705001787MaRDI QIDQ5462711zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Debra Lewis, Peter J. Olver, Nilima Nigam

Publication date 3 August 2005

Published in Communications in Contemporary Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0309234

zbMATH Keywords

connectionscurvatureIsotropymoving frames

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19)

Abstract: Partial connections are (singular) differential systems generalizing classical connections on principal bundles, yielding analogous decompositions for manifolds with nonfree group actions. Connection forms are interpreted as maps determining projections of the tangent bundle onto the partial connection; this approach eliminates many of the complications arising from the presence of isotropy. A connection form taking values in the dual of the Lie algebra is smooth even at singular points of the action, while analogs of the classical algebra-valued connection form are necessarily discontinuous at such points. The curvature of a partial connection form can be defined under mild technical hypotheses; the interpretation of curvature as a measure of the lack of involutivity of the (partial) connection carries over to this general setting.

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