Linear and projective connections over a smooth manifold
Abstract
Under the specializations of a manifold, strong and weak projectivity conditions was introduced, which make it possible to single out the coframe bundles. The connections in these principal bundles are called strong and weak projective connections.
In the case of symmetric linear connection, when the torsion is absent, the object of classic projective connection is considered. Connection forms are introduced and their structure equations are found. Hence it follows that classic projective connection is neither fundamental-group nor linear differential-geometric. It is proved, that the curvature object of this connection forms a quasitensor together with the connection object only. It is shown, that classic projective connection degenerates into different from the original linear connection on the image of a section of some homogeneous bundle.
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