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Torsion free connection $\implies$ Jet coordinates $=$ Taylor expansion coefficients?

Suppose we have some smooth n-dimensional manifold $M$ endowed with basis 1-forms $\theta^a$ with $a=1\cdots n$. Then $\theta^a$ are sections of the coframe bundle $F^* M$. In local coordinates ($x^a$ ...
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$N$th-order approximation of point stabilizing diffeomorphisms by $N$th-order jet group?

NOTE: migrated from math SE. I was wondering if ever higher jet groups of frames on a (possibly pseudo) Riemannian manifold $M$ approximate the point stabilizing subgroup of diffeomorphisms on $M$ as ...
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Induced Riemannian metric on Jet-Manifold

Suppose $(M,g)$ and $(N,g')$ are smooth Riemannian manifolds and $J^r(M,N)$ is the smooth manifold of $r$-jets $j^r_xf$ of smooth maps $f:M\to N$. Is there an 'induced' Riemannian metric $g''$ on $J^...