Notes on Tractor Calculus
Differential Geometry
2025-03-06 v1
Abstract
These notes present elementary introduction to tractors based on classical examples, together with glimpses towards modern invariant differential calculus related to vast class of Cartan geometries, the so called parabolic geometries.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2503.03516,
title = {Notes on Tractor Calculus},
author = {Jan Slovák and Radek Suchánek},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.03516},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
Chapter in book: Differential Geometry, Differential Equations, and Mathematical Physics The Wis{\l}a 19 Summer School, Ulan, Maria, Schneider, Eivind (Eds.), Springer, Birkhauser, 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-63252-6, pp. 31-72