Higher order tangent bundles

Abstract: The tangent bundle

T^{k} M

of order

k

, of a smooth Banach manifold

M

consists of all equivalent classes of curves that agree up to their accelerations of order

k

. For a Banach manifold

M

and a natural number

k

first we determine a smooth manifold structure on

T^{k} M

which also offers a fiber bundle structure for

(p i_{k}, T^{k} M, M)

. Then we introduce a particular lift of linear connections on

M

to geometrize

T^{k} M

as a vector bundle over

M

. More precisely based on this lifted nonlinear connection we prove that

T^{k} M

admits a vector bundle structure over

M

if and only if

M

is endowed with a linear connection. As a consequence applying this vector bundle structure we lift Riemannian metrics and Lagrangians from

M

to

T^{k} M

. Also, using the projective limit techniques, we declare a generalized Fr'echet vector bundle structure for

T^{i} n f t y M

over

M

.

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