On Relative Tractor Bundles

This article contributes to the relative BGG-machinery for parabolic geometries. Starting from a relative tractor bundle, this machinery constructs a sequence of differential operators that are naturally associated with the geometry in question. In many situations of interest, it is known that this...

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Published in:Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
Date:2024
Main Authors: Čap, Andreas, Guo, Zhangwen, Wasilewicz, Michał Andrzej
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Language:English
Published: Інститут математики НАН України 2024
Online Access:https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212784
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description This article contributes to the relative BGG-machinery for parabolic geometries. Starting from a relative tractor bundle, this machinery constructs a sequence of differential operators that are naturally associated with the geometry in question. In many situations of interest, it is known that this sequence provides a resolution of a sheaf that can locally be realized as a pullback from a local leaf space of a foliation that is naturally available in this situation. An explicit description of the latter sheaf was only available under much more restrictive assumptions. For any geometry that admits relative tractor bundles, we construct a large family of such bundles for which we obtain a simple, explicit description of the resolved sheaves under weak assumptions on the torsion of the geometry. In particular, we discuss the cases of Legendrean contact structures and of generalized path geometries, which are among the most important examples for which the relative BGG machinery is available. In both cases, we show that essentially all relative tractor bundles are obtained by our construction, and our description of the resolved sheaves applies whenever the BGG sequence is a resolution.
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On Relative Tractor Bundles. Andreas Čap, Zhangwen Guo and Michał Andrzej Wasilewicz. SIGMA 20 (2024), 108, 19 pages
1815-0659
2020 Mathematics Subject Classification: 58J10; 53C07; 53C15; 58J60; 58J70
arXiv:2405.13614
https://nasplib.isofts.kiev.ua/handle/123456789/212784
https://doi.org/10.3842/SIGMA.2024.108
This article contributes to the relative BGG-machinery for parabolic geometries. Starting from a relative tractor bundle, this machinery constructs a sequence of differential operators that are naturally associated with the geometry in question. In many situations of interest, it is known that this sequence provides a resolution of a sheaf that can locally be realized as a pullback from a local leaf space of a foliation that is naturally available in this situation. An explicit description of the latter sheaf was only available under much more restrictive assumptions. For any geometry that admits relative tractor bundles, we construct a large family of such bundles for which we obtain a simple, explicit description of the resolved sheaves under weak assumptions on the torsion of the geometry. In particular, we discuss the cases of Legendrean contact structures and of generalized path geometries, which are among the most important examples for which the relative BGG machinery is available. In both cases, we show that essentially all relative tractor bundles are obtained by our construction, and our description of the resolved sheaves applies whenever the BGG sequence is a resolution.
For open access purposes, the authors have applied a CC BY public copyright license to any author-accepted manuscript version arising from this submission. The first and second authors were supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), doi:10.55776/P33559. The second and third authors were partially supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), doi:10.55776/Y963. This article is based on work from COST Action CaLISTA CA21109 supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology, https://www.cost.eu). We thank the anonymous referees for several helpful comments and suggestions.
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Інститут математики НАН України
Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry: Methods and Applications
On Relative Tractor Bundles
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