Remarks on natural differential operators with tensor fields

2019/08/13 by Janyška, Josef
#53A32 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1908.04528

Abstract

We study natural differential operators transforming two tensor fields into a tensor field. First, it is proved that all bilinear operators are of order one, and then we give the full classification of such operators in several concrete situations.

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