A canonical connection associated with certain G -structures.
Let P be a G-structure on a manifold M and AdP be the adjoint bundle of P. The authors deduce the following main result: there exists a unique connection r adapted to P such that trace(S iX Tor(r)) = 0 for every section S of AdP and every vector field X on M, provided Tor(r) stands for the torsion t...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 1997 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/58671 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/58671 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 514.7 G-structure connection natural connection torsion Geometría diferencial 1204.04 Geometría Diferencial |
| Sumario: | Let P be a G-structure on a manifold M and AdP be the adjoint bundle of P. The authors deduce the following main result: there exists a unique connection r adapted to P such that trace(S iX Tor(r)) = 0 for every section S of AdP and every vector field X on M, provided Tor(r) stands for the torsion tensor field of r. Two examples, namely almost Hermitian structures and almost contact metric structures, are discussed in more detail. Another interesting result reads: for a given structure group G, if it is possible to attach a connection to each G-structure in a functorial way with the additional assumption that the connection depends on first order contact only, then the first prolongation of the Lie algebra of G vanishes |
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