On Molino lifting of Riemannian vector fields (Q756153)

Let X be a Riemannian manifold on M. Molino defined a lift \(X_ T\) of X to the bundle of transverse orthonormal frames. This bundle is naturally isomorphic to the subbundle of adapted orthonormal frames in the bundle \(B^ 1(M)\) of all linear frames of M. On the other hand, the Molino lift \(X^ M\) of X is the invariant vector field on \(B^ 1(M)\) that agrees with \(X_ T\) on the subbundle of adapted orthogonal frames. It turns out that \(X^ M\) is the horizontal lift of X with respect to a certain Riemannian connection with torsion in \(B^ 1(M)\). As an application one obtains Pasternak's Theorem on the vanishing of the Pontryagin classes in high dimensions.