Natural transformations of vector fields on manifolds to vector fields on tangent bundles (Q1110818)
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Natural transformations of vector fields on manifolds to vector fields on tangent bundles (English)
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1988
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The main result of the paper is that all first order natural operators transforming every vector field on a manifold M into a vector field on its tangent bundle form a 3-parameter family linearly generated by the flow operator, the vertical lift and the Liouville vector field. [The reviewer has recently deduced that the same result holds under no assumption on the order of the operators, Ann. Global Anal. Geom. 6, 109- 117 (1988)]. The author also determines all second order natural transformations of a linear symmetric connection on M and a vector field on M into a vector field on TM.
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first order natural operators
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vector field
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tangent bundle
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flow operator
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vertical lift
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Liouville vector field
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second order natural transformations
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