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Keywords:
connections of higher order; product preserving functors; lifts of tensors and connections
Summary:
In this paper we consider a product preserving functor $\mathcal F$ of order $r$ and a connection $\Gamma $ of order $r$ on a manifold $M$. We introduce horizontal lifts of tensor fields and linear connections from $M$ to $\mathcal F(M)$ with respect to $\Gamma $. Our definitions and results generalize the particular cases of the tangent bundle and the tangent bundle of higher order.
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