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Frames of group-sets and their application in bundle theory

Differential Geometry 2025-01-24 v2

Abstract

We study fiber bundles where the fibers are not a group GG, but a free GG-space with disjoint orbits. These bundles closely resemble principal bundles, hence we call them semi-principal bundles. The study of such bundles is facilitated by defining the notion of a basis of a GG-set, in analogy with a basis of a vector space. The symmetry group of these bases is a wreath product. Similar to vector bundles, using the notion of a basis induces a frame bundle construction, which in this case results in a principal bundle with the wreath product as structure group. This construction can be formalized in the language of a functor, which retracts the semi-principal bundles to the principal bundles. In addition, semi-principal bundles support parallel transport just like principal bundles, and this carries over to the frame bundle.

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@article{arxiv.2010.03913,
  title  = {Frames of group-sets and their application in bundle theory},
  author = {Eric J. Pap and Holger Waalkens},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.03913},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

28 pages, 3 figures

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