Gauge natural prolongation of connections
Tom 95 / 2009
                    
                    
                        Annales Polonici Mathematici 95 (2009), 37-50                    
                                        
                        MSC: 58A05, 58A20.                    
                                        
                        DOI: 10.4064/ap95-1-3                    
                                    
                                                Streszczenie
The main result is the classification of all gauge bundle functors $H$ on the category ${\cal P}{\cal B}_m(G)$ which admit gauge natural operators transforming principal connections on $P\to M$ into general connections on $HP\to M$. We also describe all gauge natural operators of this type. Similar problems are solved for the prolongation of principal connections to $HP\to P$. A special attention is paid to linear connections.
 
             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                             
                                                         
                                                            