Questions tagged [connections]
Ehresmann connections; covariant derivatives; connections on vector bundles, principal bundles, ∞-bundles, submersions, bundle gerbes; holonomy and higher holonomy; parallel transport; torsion; curvature. See also the tags [principal-bundles], [vector-bundles], [gerbes], [curvature], [geodesics], [characteristic-classes], [torsion].
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Vector bundle $L$ admits connection if and only if degree of every direct summand of $L$ divisible by $\text{char}\,k$, intuition
Consider the following theorem of Atiyah.
Let $X$ be a connected smooth projective curve over an algebraically closed field $k$. Then a vector bundle $L$ on $X$ admits a connection if and only if the ...
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Existence of flat connections via characteristic classes, for nice groups
I have two questions about what I write below (which honestly seems pretty elementary).
Is it true (more or less)?
Is there a clean reference that I can cite.
Let $G$ be a compact Lie group, $M$ a ...
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Connections in terms of tangent ($\infty$-)categories?
Given a commutative ring $k$ and a commutative $k$-algebra $A$, we know that the Kähler differential $\Omega_{A/k}^1$ could be described through machineries of tangent categories (see, for example, ...
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Is there a contact instanton connection on the tangent bundle of the 5-sphere?
A well-known example of a contact manifold is $S^5$, arising from it being a circle bundle over $\mathbb{CP^2}$. This is somewhat related to the reduction of the structure group from $SO(5)$ to $SU(2)$...
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Flat Maurer-Cartan connection iff flat Berry connection
I am studying two connections on induced representation spaces $\text{Ind}_{H}^{G} \Gamma$, where $H \subseteq G$ are groups, and $\Gamma$ is an irrep of $H$.
The first is the canonical or $H$-...
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(Higher) flat connections and Grothendieck construction
For any (nice) topological space there is an equivalence between covering spaces and local systems $\pi_1X \to \operatorname{Set}$. We can think of it as a Grothendieck construction. If we take ...
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Connections and curvature in commutative algebra
Since on any commutative algebra $R$ over ring $S$ we have module of Kahler differentials $(\Omega_{R/S},d)$ which extends to the algebraic de-Rham complex $(\Omega^\bullet,d),$ it is natural to ...
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semi flat connections
Let $L\to V$ be complex line bundle and $F_{t}:V\to V$, $t\in [0,1]$, be a loop of diffeomorphisms, $F_0=F_1=$ identity.
For every $x\in V$, we get a loop $\gamma_x(t)=\{F_t(x)\}$ whose class in $\...
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Metric connection on $\mathbb{R}^4$ that is locally Kähler but not globally Kähler
in a comment to this question When can a Connection Induce a Riemannian Metric for which it is the Levi-Civita Connection?
Robert Bryant mentions that it is possible to construct a metric connection ...
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What is a non-smooth connection?
Let $p : E \to B$ be a map of topological spaces, and $p^I : E^I \to B^I$ the induced map of path spaces. Let $Cocyl(p) = B^I \times_B E$ be the space of paths $\beta$ in $B$ equipped with a lift of $\...
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Examples of connection preserving maps in differential geometry
In synthetic differential geometry and tangent categories, linear connections on the tangent bundle are treated as a sort of algebraic gadgets that incorporate the tangent bundle. Like any other ...
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Geometric theory for cohomology groups $H^p(M;\mathbb{Z})$
An excerpt from the book Loop Spaces, Characteristic Classes and Geometric Quantization by Jean-Luc Brylinski is mentioned below:
Characteristic classes are certain cohomology classes associated
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Foliated circle bundles whose Euler class is torsion
Let $X$ be a closed manifold. By a foliated circle bundle $E \rightarrow X$ we mean a circle bundle over $X$ with total space $E$ and structure group $Diff^+(S^1)$, and a codimension one foliation of $...
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Is there an analog of the Levi–Civita connection for schemes?
Is there an analog of the Levi–Civita connection for schemes?
There exists algebraic de Rham theory, $n$-forms on vector bundles (algebraically), and familiar constructions from differential geometry....
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a technical question on the definition of connections with regular singularities
Let $X$ be a quasi-projective variety over a field $k$ of characteristic zero. A good compactification of $X$ means a projective variety $\overline{X}$ containing $X$ as the complement of a simple ...
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Flat connections with logarithmic poles and p-adic parallel transport under choice of branch of logarithm
Consider the following simple situation: We work over the ring $R=\mathbb{Z}_p[[t]]$, over which we consider a rank $2$ free module $M$ with basis $(e,f)$. On $M$, we define a flat (topologically ...
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Connections in non-commutative geometry
Let $K$ be a field, $A$ a unital associative $K$-algebra and $M$ a left $A$-module. A connection on $M$ is a $K$-linear map $\nabla:M\to \Omega^1A\otimes_AM$ which satisfies the Leibniz rule. ...
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Hopf fibration extended to bundle over $\mathbb{C}^2$
Consider the Hopf bundle $h:\mathbb{S}^3\rightarrow\mathbb{S}^2$. There is a connection $1$-form $\omega$ oh $h$ which is left $SU(2)$ invariant. In terms of the Euler angles $(\theta,\,\phi,\,\psi)$ ...
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A struggle with jets and Grothendieck vs Ehresmann connections
Let $X\to Y$ be a $C^\infty$ submersion. Consider the following two sheaves.
The sheaf on $Y$ comprised of jets of sections of $X\to Y$.
The sheaf on $X$ given by the quotient of $\Delta_{X/Y}^{-1}C^\...
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Flattening a connection on a Kähler manifold
Say $M$ is a closed Kähler manifold and $(V, \nabla)$ is a (say) constant Hermitian bundle on $V$ with (say) trivial flat connection. Now $M$ Kähler gives several distinguished classes of closed one-...
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Basic questions about crystals and Grothendieck connections
I have a few basic questions about Grothendieck connections and crystals. I know it's bad practice to ask a bunch of different questions at once, however I feel they naturally come bundled together. ...
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Nonabelian Hodge structure for noncompact curves and Hodge structure on the fundamental group
Nonabelian Hodge theory, introduced by C. Simpson and others, may be interpreted as a description of the (real) Hodge structure on the fundamental group (say, of a compact curve) in terms of some ...
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Anti-self-dual connections on CP^2
I'm learning Yang-Mills theory and its applications on 4-manifold.
I want to know that have someone computed all the anti-self-dual connections on principle
$SU(2)$ bundles over complex projective ...
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Does every stack with a connection admit an atlas with a connection?
Dear all,
Let $S$ be a scheme in characteristic $0$,
and let $\mathscr{X}/S$ mean a crystal in Artin stacks over $S$ in the sense of this handout, page 4, Definition 0.5, where we replace the scheme $...
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category of vector bundles with connections and its K-theory
For the category of Hermitian vector bundles with unitary connections, an object is (of course) a Hermitian vector bundle with a Hermitian metric and a unitary connection $(E, g^E, \nabla^E)$. For ...
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Parallel transport of global sections and Riemannian curvature
A, perhaps, naive question from an algebraist/combinatorialist teaching differential geometry. Originally asked on math.SE but didn't receive a single comment in 3 days.
Consider a (real) smooth ...
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Flatness equivalence
Let $\pi:E\rightarrow M$ be a complex vector bundle and $H$ a hermitian metric over it. If $D$ is a connection over $E$, using the metric $H$, we can decompose it as:
$$
D=D_H+\phi
$$
Where $D_H$ is ...
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Chern-Weil theory and Weil homomorphism of principal bundle
In Kobayashi and Nomizu's book Foundations of Differential geometry they introduce the concept of connection on a principal $G$ bundle. In this book, they use connection on a principal bundle to ...
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Do we have classical Riemann-Hilbert correspondence for infinite dimensional flat vector bundles?
Let $E$ be an $n$-dimensional vector bundle on a manifold $M$ and $\nabla: \Gamma(E)\to \Omega^1(M,E)$ be a flat connection on $E$. Classical Riemann-Hilbert correspondence tells us that ker$\nabla$ ...
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Geometric interpretation for a connection whose corresponding distribution generates the whole Lie algebras of vector fields
Let we have a connection on a manifold $M$ so it is considered as a distribution on the tangent bundle $TM$ of $M$. The integrability of this distrbution is equivalent to flatness of the connection.
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What is a twisted D-module?
Let $X/\mathbb{C}$ be an abelian variety, $Y$ be the dual abelian variety, and $P$ be the Poincaré bundle on $X\times Y$. On p.207, Correction to “Sheaves with connection on abelian varieties” (by M. ...
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Manifolds and Riemannian geometry with a bundle viewpoint
I was wondering if there are any books that builds the theory on manifolds and Riemannian geometry, but at the same time treats these subjects in the general case of bundles (similar to Jeffery Lee's ...
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Relation between $\mathrm{Pic}^\natural_{X/S}$ and two notions of rigidification
Let $X/S$ be a relative curve (perhaps with more adjectives). I have come across a few instances of rigidifying and rigidificators, which I would like to understand better.
In Liu-Lorenzini-Raynaud (...
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Is the cohomology $H^1(X, \mathcal{E}^\nabla)$ trivial, for the sheaf of constants of an algebraic connection $\nabla$?
Suppose that $\pi:X\to S$ is a flat morphism between Noetherian, integral schemes (of characteristic zero, if need be).
Let $\mathcal{E}$ be a locally free sheaf on $X$, and
$$\nabla:\mathcal{E} \to \...
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Change of two normal coordinates based on two nearby points?
Let $M$ be a manifold and $L(M)$ be the tangent frame bundle on $M$. Let $\Gamma$ be a linear connection on $L(M)$ which induces a covariant derivative $\nabla$ on $TM$.
Let $p, q$ be two ...
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Writing a Taylor series with covariant derivatives (connections)?
A connection of a vector bundle $E$ on a manifold $M$ is a map $d_E: \Omega^0(E) \to \Omega^1(E)$ that extends uniquely to a map $d_E: \Omega^p(E) \to \Omega^{p+1}(E)$ while satisfying
$$
d_E(\omega \...
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Existence of connection on the pushforward of a sheaf with connection
Let $X$ be a scheme and $\mathcal{F}$ an $\mathcal{O}_X$-module with a connection $\nabla$. If $f:X\to Y$ is a morphism of schemes, then we have a pushforward of $(\mathcal{F},\nabla)$ as a $\mathcal{...
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Opers and global differential operators
This is a follow up question to a previous question of mine and my thought of answer to it.
Given a (compact) Riemann surface $\Sigma$, a $SL(n,\mathbb{C})$-oper is a rank $n$ holomorphic vector ...
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Pullback connection and diffeomorphism of the base
Let $p \colon E \to B$ be a vector bundle, $\nabla^E \colon E \to E \otimes \Omega^1_B$ a connection on $E$, and $\phi \colon B \xrightarrow{\sim} B$ a diffeomorphism. Further, let there be a natural (...
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Maximally symmetric affine manifold
As a physicist who knows (something) about General Relativity, I'm accustomed to the term "maximally symmetric space" being an $n$-dimensional manifold with $\frac{n(n+1)}{2}$ Killing vectors. A ...
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Applications of Ambrose-Singer theorem on holonomy
I am planning to introduce to a group of Graduate students the notion of connections on Principal bundle, curvature of connection, Holonomy. I want to conclude with the statement of Ambrose-Singer ...
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Existence of connections in a vector bundle whose parallel transport preserves a function on a total space
Let $p:E \to M$ be a vector bundle over a smooth manifold $M$, $M\times 0$ be the image of its zero section of $p$, $\mathcal{X}(M)$ be the space of vector fields on $M$, and $\Gamma(E)$ be the space ...
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Existence of sections of a fibre bundle which are covariantly constant along certain directions
Given a vector bundle $\pi\colon E \rightarrow B$ equipped with a connection $\nabla$, it is well known that a basis of flat sections $s_i$ ($i=1,\dots,\text{rank}(E)$) (i.e. $\nabla_X s_i = 0$ for ...
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A question about a paper of Bismut and Lebeau
Let $X$ be a Riemannian manifold, and $Y\hookrightarrow X$ be a closed submanifold of $X$ with normal bundle $N$ with the induced metric.
Then near $Y$, we have $$dv_X(y,Z)=k(y,Z)dv_Y(y)dv_{N_y}(Z),$$...
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Invariant Lagrangians of a connection and its derivatives: how do they look like?
Let
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L=L(\Gamma,\partial\Gamma,\ldots,\partial^n\Gamma)
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be a Lagrangian depending on a linear symmetric connection $\Gamma$ on the tangent space of a manifold $M$ together with its derivatives up ...
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Growth of norm of curvature under direct sum or existence of universal connection
For a Hermitian vector bundle E over a Riemannian $(X,g)$ and a unitary connection A we may define the sup norm of the curvature by:
$$\|R_A\|=\sup \{\| tracefree (R_A (v))\|_{op} \mid v \in \Lambda ^...
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Connection and reduction of the structure group
I apologize for this question which is not really research-level, but I don't get any answer on mathStackExchange, and I asked a professor in my university... which couldn't find the solution.
I am ...
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Does the monodromy of such VHS have to be trivial
Consider a variation of polarized Hodge structure on a punctured disk. Suppose that connection preserves Hodge filtration (which is much stronger, than Griffiths transversality). Moreover assume that ...
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Parallel Ricci condition - Status report and bibliography
First I'd like to point out that I'm not a mathematician but a physicist. Dealing with a (hopefully) new affine theory of gravity we have find that the equation of motion are not the usual Einstein's ...
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Lefschetz hyperplane section theorem for connections
Let $X$ be a projective, smooth, algebraic variety over a subfield of the complex numbers, and let $Y \hookrightarrow X$ be a smooth hyperplane section of $X$. The classical Lefschetz theorem claims ...