Extendability of parallel sections in vector bundles

Abstract: We address the following question: Given a differentiable manifold

M

what are the open subsets

U

of

M

such that, for all vector bundles

E

over

M

and all linear connections

a b l a

on

E

, any

a b l a

-parallel section in

E

defined on

U

extends to a

a b l a

-parallel section in

E

defined on

M

? For simply connected manifolds

M

(among others) we describe the entirety of all such sets

U

which are, in addition, the complement of a

C^{1}

submanifold (boundary allowed) of

M

; this delivers a partial positive answer to a problem posed by Antonio J. Di Scala and Gianni Manno. Furthermore, in case

M

is an open submanifold of

m a t h b b R^{n}

,

2 l e q n

, we prove that the complement of

U

in

M

, not required to be a submanifold now, can have arbitrarily large

n

-dimensional Lebesgue measure.

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