The canonical involution in the space of connections of a (J^{2}=\pm 1)-metric manifold

MaRDI QIDQ6287326zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Fernando Etayo, Rafael Santamaría

Publication date 31 May 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Connections (general theory) (53C05) Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) General geometric structures on manifolds (almost complex, almost product structures, etc.) (53C15) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50)

Abstract: A $(J^2=pm1)$-metric manifold has an almost complex or almost product structure $J$ and a compatible metric $g$. We show that there exists a canonical involution in the set of connections on such a manifold, which allows to define a projection over the set of connections adapted to $J$. This projection sends the Levi Civita connection onto the first canonical connection. In the almost Hermitian case, it also sends the $abl{a}^{-}$ connection onto the Chern connection, thus applying the line of metric connections defined by $abl{a}^{-}$ and the Levi Civita connections onto the line of canonical connections. Besides, it moves metric connections onto metric connections.

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