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Geometric structures on Weil bundles: Canonical differential-geometric constructions

Differential Geometry 2025-04-09 v3

Abstract

This paper investigates the transfer of classical geometric structures from a smooth manifold MM to its Weil bundle (MA,π~M,M)(M^\mathbf A, \tilde\pi_M, M) associated with a Weil algebra A\mathbf A. 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 MAM^\mathbf A. Our approach emphasizes the differential geometric properties of these canonical constructions, utilizing the Weil projection π~M\tilde{\pi}_M 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 MAM^\mathbf{A} (for suitable MM and A\mathbf{A}) 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}
}
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