Wagner Lift of Riemannian metric to Orthogonal Frame Bundle

Details Wagner Lift of Riemannian metric to Orthogonal Frame Bundle Wagner Lift of Riemannian metric to Orthogonal Frame Bundle

2009-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/0901.0326v2

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Differential Geometry

19 paginas

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In the present work we construct a lift of a metric $g$ on a 2-dimensional oriented Riemannian manifold $M$ to a metric $\hat{g}$ on the total space $P$ of the orthonormal frame bundle of $M$. We call this lift the \textit {Wagner lift}. Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner (1908 -1981) proposed a technique to extend a metric defined on a non-holonomic distribution to its prolongation via the Lie brackets. We apply the Wagner construction to the specific case when the distribution is the infinitesimal connection in the orthonormal frame bundle which corresponds to a Levi-Civita connection. We find relations between the geometry of the Riemannian manifold $(M,g)$ and of the total space $(P,G)$ of the orthonormal frame bundle endowed with the lifted metric.

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