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Higher order tangent bundles

Differential Geometry 2017-10-11 v5

Abstract

The tangent bundle TkMT^kM of order kk, of a smooth Banach manifold MM consists of all equivalent classes of curves that agree up to their accelerations of order kk. For a Banach manifold MM and a natural number kk first we determine a smooth manifold structure on TkMT^kM which also offers a fiber bundle structure for (πk,TkM,M)(\pi_k,T^kM,M). Then we introduce a particular lift of linear connections on MM to geometrize TkMT^kM as a vector bundle over MM. More precisely based on this lifted nonlinear connection we prove that TkMT^kM admits a vector bundle structure over MM if and only if MM is endowed with a linear connection. As a consequence applying this vector bundle structure we lift Riemannian metrics and Lagrangians from MM to TkMT^kM. Also, using the projective limit techniques, we declare a generalized Fr\'echet vector bundle structure for TMT^\infty M over MM.

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@article{arxiv.1403.3111,
  title  = {Higher order tangent bundles},
  author = {Ali Suri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.3111},
  year   = {2017}
}
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