On lifting of 2-vector fields to r -jet prolongation of the tangent bundle

Abstract

If \(m \geq 3\) and \(r \geq 1\), we prove that any natural linear operator \(A\) lifting 2-vector fields \(\Lambda \in \Gamma (\bigwedge^2 TM)\) (i.e., skew-symmetric tensor fields of type (2,0)) on \(m\)-dimensional manifolds \(M\) into 2-vector fields \(A(\Lambda)\) on \(r\)-jet prolongation \(J^rTM\) of the tangent bundle \(TM\) of \(M\) is the zero one.