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International Congress on Differential Geometry in memory of Alfred Gray (1939-1998)
September 18-23, 2000
Universidad del País Vasco
Bilbao, Spain

Organizers
M. Fernández (chairman), R. Ibáñez, M. Macho-Stadler

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Connections and torsions on higher order tangent and cotangent bundles
by
Miroslav Doupovec
Technical University of Brno, Czech Republic
Coauthors: Jan Kurek (Maria Curie Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland)

Oral Communication

We study general connections and torsions on higher order tangent and cotangent bundles. By a torsion of a general connection \Gamma on a fibered manifold Y --> M we understand the Frölicher-Nijenhuis bracket of \Gamma and some canonical tangent valued 1-form (affinor) on Y.

Date received: May 26, 2000

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