Homogeneous algebraic distributions

DOI10.1216/RMJM/1008959668MaRDI QIDQ5940649zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marco Castrillón López, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date 12 August 2001

Published in Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://math.la.asu.edu/~rmmc/rmj/VOL31-1/CONT31-1/CONT31-1.html

adjoint bundle algebraic morphism of vector bundles algebraic vector field gauge algebra Liouville vector field

Differential algebra (12H05) Commutative rings of differential operators and their modules (13N10) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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The goal of this paper is to provide characterization of homogeneous algebraic distributions on vector bundles. The classical result states that a vector field \(X\) on \(R^n\) is homogeneous algebraic of degree \(d\) if and only if \([\chi,X_j]=(d-1)X\), where \(\chi\) is the Liouville vector field. In this paper, the authors generalize the above statement to distributions of arbitrary rank. They show that a vertical distribution \(\mathcal{D}\) on a vector bundle \(p\colon E\to M\) locally spanned by vertical vector fields \(X_1,\dots, X_r\) is homogeneous algebraic of degree \(d\) if and only if there exists an \(r\times r\) matrix \(A=[a_{ij}]\) of smooth functions given by \([\chi,X_j]=\sum_{i=1}^r a_{ij}X_i\) such that \(A\) restricted to the zero section of \(E\) is \((d-1)\) times the identity matrix.

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