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In mathematics, the Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket is an extension of the Lie bracket of vector fields to vector-valued differential forms on a differentiable manifold. It is useful in the study of connections, notably the Ehresmann connection, as well as in the more general study of projections in the tangent bundle. It was introduced by Alfred Frölicher and Albert Nijenhuis (1956) and is related to the work of Schouten (1940). It is related to but not the same as the Nijenhuis–Richardson bracket and the Schouten–Nijenhuis bracket. ==Definition== Let Ω *(''M'') be the sheaf of exterior algebras of differential forms on a smooth manifold ''M''. This is a graded algebra in which forms are graded by degree: : A graded derivation of degree ℓ is a mapping : which is linear with respect to constants and satisfies : Thus, in particular, the interior product with a vector defines a graded derivation of degree ℓ = −1, whereas the exterior derivative is a graded derivation of degree ℓ = 1. The vector space of all derivations of degree ℓ is denoted by DerℓΩ *(''M''). The direct sum of these spaces is a graded vector space whose homogeneous components consist of all graded derivations of a given degree; it is denoted : This forms a graded Lie superalgebra under the anticommutator of derivations defined on homogeneous derivations ''D''1 and ''D''2 of degrees ''d''1 and ''d''2, respectively, by : Any vector-valued differential form ''K'' in Ω''k''(''M'', T''M'') with values in the tangent bundle of ''M'' defines a graded derivation of degree ''k'' − 1, denoted by ''i''''K'', and called the insertion operator. For ω ∈ Ωℓ(''M''), : The Nijenhuis–Lie derivative along ''K'' ∈ Ωk(''M'', T''M'') is defined by : where ''d'' is the exterior derivative and ''i''K is the insertion operator. The Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket is defined to be the unique vector-valued differential form : such that : Hence, : If ''k'' = 0, so that ''K'' ∈ Ω0(''M'', T''M'') is a vector field, the usual homotopy formula for the Lie derivative is recovered : If ''k''=''ℓ''=1, so that ''K,L'' ∈ Ω1(''M'', T''M''), one has for any vector fields ''X'' and ''Y'' : If ''k''=0 and ''ℓ''=1, so that ''K=Z''∈ Ω0(''M'', T''M'') is a vector field and ''L'' ∈ Ω1(''M'', T''M''), one has for any vector field ''X'' : An explicit formula for the Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket of and (for forms φ and ψ and vector fields ''X'' and ''Y'') is given by : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frölicher–Nijenhuis bracket」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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