Geometric structures on Weil bundles: Canonical differential-geometric constructions
Abstract
This paper investigates the transfer of classical geometric structures from a smooth manifold to its Weil bundle associated with a Weil algebra . We show that various structures including locally conformal symplectic (lcs), locally conformal cosymplectic (lcc), contact, Jacobi, Sasakian, Walker, sub Riemannian, orientation, Riemannian, and K\"ahlerian structures admit canonical lifts to . Our approach emphasizes the differential geometric properties of these canonical constructions, utilizing the Weil projection and related functorial tools. This provides a unified perspective on endowing Weil bundles with rich geometric structure inherited from the base manifold. Furthermore, we highlight a specific construction yielding a cosymplectic manifold on (for suitable and ) that is demonstrably not a trivial suspension of a symplectic manifold. We also explicitly show how integrability of almost complex structures is preserved and clarify the nature of lifted characteristic vector fields.
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@article{arxiv.2411.17212,
title = {Geometric structures on Weil bundles: Canonical differential-geometric constructions},
author = {S. Tchuiaga and A. Ndiaye and C. Khoule and R. A. M. Mohameden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.17212},
year = {2025}
}