On the extendability of parallel sections of linear connections

DOI10.1007/S10231-015-0513-ZMaRDI QIDQ740042zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gianni Manno, Antonio J. Di Scala

Publication date 11 August 2016

Published in Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata. Serie Quarta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7688

zbMATH Keywords

extendabilitylinear connectionsparallel sections

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vector bundles on surfaces and higher-dimensional varieties, and their moduli (14J60) Issues of holonomy in differential geometry (53C29)

Abstract: Let $pi:EoM$ be a vector bundle over a simply connected manifold and $abla$ a linear connection in $pi$. Let $sigma:UightarrowE$ be a $abla$-parallel section of $pi$ defined on a connected open subset $U$ of $M$. We give sufficient conditions on $U$ in order to extend $sigma$ to the whole $M$. We mainly concentrate to the case when $M$ is a $2$-dimensional simply connected manifold.

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In the paper the authors study the problem of extendability of parallel sections of linear connections on vector bundles. Given a vector bundle \(\pi:E \rightarrow M\) over a simply connected manifold \(M\), a linear connection \(\nabla\) in \(\pi\) and a \(\nabla\)-parallel section \(\sigma: U \rightarrow E\) on a connected open subset \(U\) of \(M\), they obtain sufficient conditions on \(U\) in order to extend \(\sigma\) as parallel section to the whole of \(M\). In particular, they prove that if the complement of \(U\) in \(M\) is contained in a smooth submanifold of codimension greater or equal to \(2\), then \(\sigma\) can be extended as a parallel section to the whole of \(M\). Moreover, they show other sufficient conditions under the assumption that \(M\) is \(2\)-dimensional.

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