A note on actions of some monoids (Q288884)

By Grabowski and Rotkiewicz, smoth actions of the multiplicative monoid \((\mathbb R,\cdot)\) of real numbers on manifolds lead to alternative, and for some reasons simpler, definitions of a vector bundle, a double vector bundle and related structures like a graded bundle. For these reasons it is natural to study smooth actions of certain monoids closely related with \((\mathbb R,\cdot)\). In particular, the authors discuss geometric structures naturally related with: smooth and holomorphic actions of the monoid of multiplicative complex numbers, smooth actions of the monoid of second jets of punctured maps \((\mathbb R,0)\to(\mathbb R,0)\), smooth actions of the monoid of real 2 by 2 matrices and smooth actions of the multiplicative reals on a supermanifold. In particular cases they recover the notions of a holomorphic vector bundle, a complex vector bundle and non-negatively graded manifold.