Natural connections on the bundle of Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1007/S00605-008-0565-XzbMATH Open1155.53008arXivmath/0507075OpenAlexW1521475259WikidataQ115385622 ScholiaQ115385622MaRDI QIDQ956668FDOQ956668

Authors: R. Ferreiro Pérez, Jaime Muñoz Masqué 

Publication date: 25 November 2008

Published in: Monatshefte für Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Let $FM,mathcal{M}_M$ be the bundles of linear frames and Riemannian metrics of a manifold $M$, respectively. The existence of a unique $mathrmDiffM$-invariant connection form on $J^{1}mathcal{M}_{M}ime{s}_{M}FMo{J}^{1}mathcal{M}_M$, which is Riemannian with respect to the universal metric on $J^{1}mathcal{M}_{M}ime{s}_{M}TM$, is proved. Aplications to the construction of universal Pontryagin and Euler forms, are given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0507075

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zbMATH Keywords

natural connectionsuniversal Pontryagin formsbundle of metricslinear frame bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of local Riemannian geometry (53B21) Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects (53A55) Linear and affine connections (53B05) Group actions and symmetry properties (58D19) Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology (57R20) Jets in global analysis (58A20)

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