Connections on higher order frame bundles and their gauge analogies

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Authors	KOLÁŘ Ivan
Year of publication	2009
Type	Chapter of a book
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
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Description	We present a survey of the basic properties of connections on the r-th order frame bundle of a manifold. Special attention is paid to the torsion and torsion-free connections. Connections on the r-th principal prolongation of a principal bundle are treated from similar points of view.
Related projects:	Mathematical structures and their physical applications Geometric structures on fibered manifolds