Existence of parallel sections of a vector bundle

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2010.09.016MaRDI QIDQ617966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Atkins

Publication date 14 January 2011

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0804.1732

zbMATH Keywords

metric connectionderived flagparallel section

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

Abstract: We consider when a smooth vector bundle endowed with a connection possesses non-trivial, local parallel sections. This is accomplished by means of a derived flag of subsets of the bundle. The procedure is algebraic and rests upon the Frobenius Theorem.

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