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Affine bundles and integrable almost tangent structures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

M. Crampin  and
G. Thompson
M. Crampin
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
G. Thompson
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, U.S.A.
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An almost tangent structure on a manifold N is a type (1,1) tensor field S onN with the property that at each point y ∊N the kernel of Sy (regarded as a linear endo-morphism of TyN) coincides with its image. An almost tangent structure is said to be integrable if its Nijenhuis tensor vanishes.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 98 , Issue 1 , July 1985 , pp. 61 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1985

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