Natural connections on the bundle of Riemannian metrics

DOI10.1007/s00605-008-0565-xzbMath1155.53008arXivmath/0507075WikidataQ115385622 ScholiaQ115385622MaRDI QIDQ956668

Jaime Muñoz Masqué, Roberto Ferreiro Pérez

Publication date: 25 November 2008

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

natural connections; universal Pontryagin forms; bundle of metrics; linear frame bundles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

58A20: Jets in global analysis

57R20: Characteristic classes and numbers in differential topology

58D19: Group actions and symmetry properties

53B05: Linear and affine connections

53A55: Differential invariants (local theory), geometric objects

53B21: Methods of local Riemannian geometry

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