General Notion of Curvature in Catastrophe Theory Terms

MaRDI QIDQ3567731zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Petko A. Nikolov, Lora Nikolova, Gergana R. Ruseva

Publication date 17 June 2010

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0802.2187

zbMATH Keywords

superconnectionsupercurvaturevector bundle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Analysis on supermanifolds or graded manifolds (58C50) Theory of singularities and catastrophe theory (58K99)

Abstract: We introduce a new notion of a curvature of a superconnection, different from the one obtained by a purely algebraic analogy with the curvature of a linear connection. The naturalness of this new notion of a curvature of a superconnection comes from the study of singularities of smooth sections of vector bundles (Catastrophe Theory). We demonstrate that the classical examples of obstructions to a local equivalence: exterior differential for 2-forms, Riemannian tensor, Weil tensor, curvature of a linear connection and Nijenhuis tensor can be treated in terms of one general approach. This approach, applied to the superconnection leads to a new notion of a curvature (proposed in this paper) of a superconnection.

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