Algèbre de Lie attachée à la structure presque tangente d'ordre 2. (The Lie algebra associated to an almost tangent structure of order 2) (Q1106481)

The second order tangent bundle T 2M of a differentiable manifold M possesses a canonical almost tangent structure of order 2, i.e. a vector 1-form F such that F \(3=0\). In this paper the author studies the Lie algebra \(L_ F\) of vector fields on T 2M which leave F invariant. The following results are shown: 1) the Chevalley cohomology group H \(1(L_ F;L_ F)\) has dimension 2; 2) \(L_ F\) equals its derived algebra; 3) \(L_ F\) characterizes the differentiable structure of M.