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Colloquium Thursday, September 16, 2010


Bundles with a Lift of Infinitesimal Diffeomorphisms

Bas Janssens (UU)


Abstract: A principal bundle is called `natural' if diffeomorphisms of the base lift to automorphisms of the bundle in a way that respects composition. We propose to call a principal bundle `infinitesimally natural' if the infinitesimal version of this requirement holds, that is if vector fields on the base lift to equivariant vector fields on the total space in a way that respects the Lie bracket. This talk will be about how and why to classify infinitesimally natural principal bundles.  Explaining the `how' will take most of the talk, but the `why' part is easy: in classical field theory, infinitesimal naturality is precisely what makes the energy-momentum tensor well defined.

     
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Location: room 611 of the Wiskunde building (campus De Uithof) Budapestlaan 6, Utrecht.

Date and time: Thursday, September 16, 2010 15:30-16:30. The lecture is preceded by coffee, tea, and cookies from 15.00 to 15.30 hour in the same room.