Duality functors for n-fold vector bundles

Authors Alfonso Gracia-Saz, Kirill Charles Howard Mackenzie

Publication date 31 August 2012

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Fiber spaces and bundles in algebraic topology (55R99) Structure and classification of infinite or finite groups (20E99)

Abstract: Double vector bundles may be dualized in two distinct ways and these duals are themselves dual. These two dualizations generate a group, denoted

m a t h s c r D m a t h s c r F_{2}

, which is the symmetric group

S_{3}

on three symbols. In the case of triple vector bundles the authors proved in a previous paper that the corresponding group

m a t h s c r D m a t h s c r F_{3}

is an extension of

S_{4}

by the Klein four-group. In this paper we show that the group

m a t h s c r D m a t h s c r F_{n}

, for

n

-fold vector bundles,

n g e q 3

, is an extension of

S_{n + 1}

by a certain product of groups of order 2, and show that the centre is nontrivial if and only if

n

is a multiple of 4. The methods employ an interpretation of duality operations in terms of certain graphs on

(n + 1)

vertices.

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