Covariant derivatives for Ehresmann connections

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2022.104541MaRDI QIDQ2149442zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 28 June 2022

Published in Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07242

zbMATH Keywords

torsionEhresmann connectionsspraysHopf bundlecovariant derivativesframe bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric methods in ordinary differential equations (34A26) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

Abstract: We deal with the construction of covariant derivatives for some quite general Ehresmann connections on fibre bundles. We show how the introduction of a vertical endomorphism allows construction of covariant derivatives separately on both the vertical and horizontal distributions of the connection which can then be glued together on the total space. We give applications across an important class of tangent bundle cases, frame bundles and the Hopf bundle.

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