What is a jet bundle?

08.06.2023, 16:00  –  Raum 0.14
Forschungsseminar Differentialgeometrie

Christian Bär (UP)

I'll give a concise introduction to jet bundles of vector bundles. They allow to treat (higher) derivatives of sections in a coordinate invariant way without the need to introduce connections. Differential operators and their total and principal symbols will also be described in this language.