Duality functors for n-fold vector bundles

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Authors: Alfonso Gracia-Saz, Kirill Charles Howard Mackenzie 

Publication date: 31 August 2012

Abstract: Double vector bundles may be dualized in two distinct ways and these duals are themselves dual. These two dualizations generate a group, denoted $mathscrDmathscr{F}_2$, 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 $mathscrDmathscr{F}_3$ is an extension of $S_4$ by the Klein four-group. In this paper we show that the group $mathscrDmathscr{F}_n$, for $n$-fold vector bundles, $ngeq3$, 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.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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