Analogues of torsion-free and curvature-free connections with a torsion non-tensor and a curvature non-tensor

Abstract

The paper is devoted to affine connection in the frame bundle associ­ated with a manifold which structure equations and derivation formulas are constructed using deformations of the exterior and ordinary differen­tials. Curvature and torsion objects of this connection are not tensors. A cha­racteristic of a curvature which is a convolution of a deformation tensor and a torsion, is considered. Torsion-free connections are not distingui­shed on the introduced manifold, even in the case of symmetric deforma­tion, a class of semi-symmetric connections is distinguished, which is an analogue of symmetric connection on an ordinary smooth manifold. It is proved that if the connection deformation tensor is symmetric or zero, then the connection is semi-symmetric. Analogues of torsion-free and cur­vature-free connections are constructed. The torsion and curvature of this connection are expressed in terms of the symmetric deformation tensor for the connection. Canonical connection is a special case of this connec­tion, it is semi-symmetric and curvature-free.

Keywords

• second order tangent space
• differential perturbation
• non-symmetrical second order frames and coframes
• torsion and curvature objects
• flat connection
• semi-symmetrical connection