Lifting connections to the r-jet prolongation of the cotangent bundle

Abstract

We show that the problem of finding all Mfm -natural operators C : Q "M QJ r T ∗ lifting classical linear connections ∇ on m-manifolds M into classical linear connections CM (∇) on the r-jet prolongation J r T ∗M of the cotangent bundle T ∗M p of M can be reduced to that of finding all Mfm -natural operators D : Q "M® T ⊗ q ® T ∗ sending classical linear connections ∇ on M into tensor fields DM (∇) of type (p, q) on M .