C AHIERS DE
TOPOLOGIE ET GÉOMÉTRIE DIFFÉRENTIELLE CATÉGORIQUES
A. K OCK
R. L AVENDHOMME
Strong infinitesimal linearity, with applications to strong difference and affine connections
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STRONG INFINITESIMAL
LINEARITY,
WITH APPLICATIONS TO STRONG DIFFERENCE AND AFFINE CONNECTIONSby
A. KOCK and R. LA VENDHOMME CAHIERS DE TOPOLOGIEET GÉOMÉTRIE DIFFÉRENTIELLE
CATÉGORIQUES
Vol. XXV-3 (1984)
Resume. Nous
présentons
ici diverses notions et constructionsappartenant à
la theorieaxiomatique
de la G6om6trie Differen- tielleSynthétique ;
nous montronsqu’elles
fournissent des demons- trationssimples
etcompletement indépendantes
des coordonn6es de certaineségalités
pour les connexionsaffines,
etqu’elles
per- mettent de trouver un lienmanquant
pour relier ces connexionsaux
"sprays".
1. The
strong
notion of infinitesimallinearity.
We work over a field k of characteristic
0,
forsimplicity.
Recall(from [4] Appendix A, say)
that if R is a commutativek-algebra object
in a
category E
with finite inverselimits,
then there exists a functor(where
FPk is thecategory
offinitely presented
commutativek -alge- bras),
which preserves finite inverse limits and takesk[X]
toR ;
thesetwo
properties
determine the functor up to anisomorphism.
Since weshall
keep
Rfixed,
we writeSpec
forSpec R .
Let W C FP k be the full
subcategory consisting
of Weilalgebras
over k
(cf. [4] 1 § 16, say). By
an inverse limit of WeilAlgebras,
weunderstand an inverse limit
diagram
inFP k , consisting
of Weilalgebras ;
or,
equivalently,
an inverse limitdiagram
inW,
whichis’ preserved by
theinclusion W C FP k
(or equivalently,
ispreserved by
theforgetful
functorfrom W to
Sets,
or tok-Vect ,
thecategory
of vector spaces overk).
The contravariant functor
Spec
takes finite colimitdiagrams
tolimit
diagrams,
but not limits to colimits.However,
it will be convenient to make thefollowing
Definition 1.1. A
diagram
in E that appears asSpec (= Spec R ) applied
to a finite inverse limit
diagram
of Weilalgebras
is called aquasi-co-
limit in E
(relative
toR).
The motivation for this definition is that if E is Cartesian closed
(which
we henceforthassume)
and ifE ,
R satisfies the(Kock-Lawvere)
Axiom ] W (cf. [4J
I§ 16),
then R"perceives
anyquasi-colimit diagram
to be an actual colimit
diagram" ;
moreprecisely
Proposition
1.2.Suppose
R satisfies AxiomlW.
Then the contravariant functor R’-’ : E + E takesquasi-colimit diagrams
into limitdiagrams.
And
conversely,
if adiagram
ofobjects Spec(W) (W E W) is
taken into alimit diaram
by R (-),
then thediagram
is aquasi-colimit, provided ,
r
(R) =
k.(Here r:
E -> Sets denotes theglobal
sections functorhomE (1, -).)
Proof. The
composite (covariant)
functoris, by
Axiom1 W, isomorphic
to the functorRa- ;
this is the functor which takeskn ,
with ak-algebra
structure with structure constantsYpq £ k ,
into Rn E
E,
withk-algebra
structuregiven by
the same structure cons-tants. This functor is
easily
seen to preserve those finite limits whichare
preserved by Vli
CFPk ;
infact,
RI8- can be defined as an additivefunctor from k-vect
(=
finite dimensional vector spaces overk )
to thecategory
of R-modules inE,
and it is exact since short sequences of vector spaces aresplit
exact and thus remain exact uponapplication
ofany additive functor.
To prove the converse, consider the
composite
functorWe
have,
for W EW, by
Axiom lw and definition ofRl8I-,
that(using r(R)
=k).
Now let D be adiagram
in W such thatF-, ,5pec D
is alimit
diagram. Then,
since r preserveslimits, r(RSpecD) is
a limit inSets ,
and hence so is Ditself, by (1.1).
So D is a limitdiagram
of Weilalgebras,
thusSpec(D)
is aquasi-colimit.
0Let us remark we do not have a converse
Proposition :
from"R( )
converts
quasi-colimits
intolimits",
we cannot conclude "R satisfies Axiom1W
". Infact,
any reducedring (= nilpotent free)
in Sets will have the formerproperty.
The
following general
notion of infinitesimallinearity
is essen-tially
the one firstproposed by Bergeron [1 J, although
we havesimplified
his formulation. It is a
strengthening
of the notion "infinitesimal linear-ity"
first considered in[13]
and[6].
It alsoimplies
the Wraith condition("condition (8)"
inD3],
calledProperty
W in[4],
and thus also the Mi-crolinearity
of[1] J.
And itimplies
theSymmetric
FunctionProperty (cf. [4J),
the IteratedTangent
BundleProperty (cf. [2]),
and many otherproperties,
one of which will be essentialin §
2.Definition 1.3. An
object
M e E is calledinfinitesimally
linear(in
thestrong sense)
if the contravariant functorM"’ :
E - E takesquasi-colim-
it
diagrams
into limitdiagrams. ("M perceives quasi-colimits
as actualcolimits".)
Thus, by Proposition 1.2,
Axiomlw implies
that R isinfinitesimally
linear in the
strong
sense.Also,
the class L ofobjects
in E which areinfinitesimally
linear in thestrong
sense is closed under all inverselimits,
and if X E E and M E
L,
then M E L . Inparticular,
any "affine scheme"Spec(A) (with
A EFP k)
will be in L . In anywell-adapted
modelfor
synthetic
differentialgeometry,
any manifold will be in L . ForR,
this follows from Axiomlw and Proposition 1.2,
and for other mani-folds,
theargument
is then the same as the onegiven
in[3],
Theorem 4.Finally,
theproof
of[6]
of "6tale descent of infinitesimallinearity"
goesthrough
for thestrong
notion.In
general,
L will not be closed under formation ofsubobjects
in E . Even if E is a Grothendieck
topos,
we do not know whether L C E is a reflexivesubcategory.
2. The notion of
strong
difference.As a first
application,
we shall introduce the notion ofstrong difference,
which in classical differentialgeometry
was consideredby
I.
Kolar [9, 10],
and E. White[14] (Theorem 2.7).
All our considerationsare in a
topos
E with a commutativek-algebra object R,
whichsatisfies Axiom
lw .
Wefreely
make use of the "set theoretic" way ofspeaking
about E(see
e.g.[4], Chapter 2,
for ajustification),
and alsoof some of the standard notation of SDG. In
particular,
maps D -> Mare called
tangents,
and maps DxD - M2-tangents,
cf.[8]. (They
cor-respond
to the 2-sectors of[14].)
Let
(DxD)VD
CR3
denote thesubobject
Then we have a commutative
diagram
where
D(2)
and DxD are the usualobjects
with this name(cf. [4]
I § 6, say),
and the un-named maps theinclusion ;
cpand Y
aregiven by:
The
diagram (2.1)
isactually
aquasi-pushout :
it sufficesby
the second clause inProposition
1.2 to test with R.By
Axiom1W,
mapsare of the form
f(dl, d2, e) =
a + b1 ,di 1 + b2.d2 + b.e + c.dl.d2 .Using
also Axiomlw
toget
standard form for mapsthe result follows
trivially.
Consider also the map
We consider in what follows an
object
M which isinfinitesimally
linear in the
strong
sense. It thereforeperceives (2.1)
as apushout.
Thusif t1, T2 : DxD -> M are two
2-tangents
which coincide onD(2)
CDxD,
we
get
aunique
Definition 2.1. The
strong
difference of Tz and T2 denotedT2 *- Tj
is thetangent
vector 1 o E: D -> M.Just as
easily
as for(2.1),
one sees that thefollowing diagram (2.2)
is aquasi-pushout
(with
cp and E asabove,
and the un-named mapsbeing given by 0). Thus,
if T : DxD -> M and t : D -> M have
T (0, 0)
= t(0),
there exists aunique
u :
(DxD)VD ->
M with uo cp - T and u o E = t.Definition 2.2. The
(translation - )
sum of tand T ,
denoted t+ T ,
is the2-tanaent uo Y : DxD -> M.
To state
succintly
thealgebraic
structur’eprovided by :
and+,
we remind the reader that if
(V,
+,0)
is an abelian group and A is anon-empty (better "inhabited") set,
then togive
A the structure of atranslation space, or affine space, or torsor, over V means to
give
mapssatisfying equations (a)-(d) below,
for any Ti EA, tj
E V.Any
fixedTo E A
gives
rise to an identification of V withA,
via t ->t + to,
in sucha way that + becomes + and t becomes -. It follows that when
testing
a
meaningful equation involving +, .:,
+ and -, it suffices toreplace + by
+ and -*
by
-, and test whether the result is anidentity
of thetheory
ofabelian groups.
We can now state
Proposition
2.3. The fibres of the restrictionmorphisms
(for
x 6 Marbitrary)
have a natural structure of translation spaceover
(MD)x .
Proof. It suffices to
verify
the identitiesThe three first follow
easily
from the definitions of - and +. The fourth isproved using
theeasily
verified fact that thefollowing diagram
is aquasi-pushout
where
and
One then considers u :
(DxD)VD ->
M characterizedby
and next v :
(DXD)VD +
M characterizedby
and
finally w : DxDVD(2) ->
M characterizedby
One sees
easily
thatSo it
just
remains to be verified that one also hasTo do
this,
let usput
We have
and,
becauseand
we have Thus
which is the desired result.
We note that we have on
MD x D two
laws formultiplying by
ascalar he
R,
definedby
One
easily
verifies thefollowing proposition :
Proposition
2.4. If L1 and T2 are2-tangents
which coincide onD(2)
C DxDthen
One also
has,
for T a2-tangent
and t atangent
Remark. If one is
only
interested in the"algebra
of2-tangents"
on
M,
it is not necessary torequire
M to beinfinitesimally
linear inthe
strong
sense. It suffices in fact that M isinfinitesimally
linear inthe usual sense, and satisfies condition W. Let us
just
prove this for the case ofstrong
difference. Let Ti and T2 be2-tangents
which coin- cide onD(2)
CDxD,
and denote their(common)
restrictions to the twoaxes
by
X and Y.By
cartesianadjointness
one may view Ti and T2 as
tangent
vectors onMD
at Y. BecauseM,
and thus
M 0 ,
isinfinitesimally
linear in the usual sense, one may con- sider the difference Q = T2 - Tl in the R-moduleTy(M D) .
This differencea :
D -+ M 0
takes in fact its values in the spaceTxM
CMD .
Now this R-module V is Euclidean(cf. [ll],
i.e.VD =
VxVcanonically),
be-cause M has the
property
W. Hence there exists aunique tangent
vectort E
TxM
suchthat,
for any d £D, o-(d)
= Y + d. t . One thenput
(This
way ofdefining -*
is a directparaphrasing
ofKolar’s definition, [9]§4.)
Kolar [10 ],
and White[141,
Definition2.17,
noted howstrong
difference may be used to express the Lie bracket of two vector fields.We shall state and prove this result in our context. We remind the reader
(confer
e. g.[4], 1 § 9)
that the Lie bracket[X, Y]
of two vectorfields X and Y on M is characterized
by
(x£ M).
We definealso,
for x£M,
a2-tangent (Y.X)x
at xby
For
convenience,
denote the vector field -Xby X,
and let S : DxD - DxD denote the twist map(dh d2) l->(d2, d1).
Proposition
2.5. We haveProof. First note that the two terms on the
right
are2-tangents
withsome restriction to
D(2)
becauseXdl
andYd2
commute for(d1, d2 )
ED(2)
(generalize
Exercise 1.9.1 in[4]).
Construct 1 :(DxD)VD
-> Mby
We have
and
but since
X dl
cancelsXdl
andYd2
cancelsY-d2 in (2.5),
thisequals (X.Y)xo
s(d,. d1). qn that3.
Applications
to thetheory
of affine connections.Let
M,
asbefore,
be anobject
which isinfinitesimally
linear inthe
strong
sense. As in[7],
with thesimplification
of[5],
an(affine)
connection on M is a map
satisfying
thefollowing equational
conditions(with tl
andt2 tangents
at the samepoint
ofM,
thus(t1, t2 )
eMDX MD) :
M
for all
di
ED,
a E R. The first condition says that V is asplitting
ofthe evident map
which sends a
2-tangent
T to( T (., 0), T (0, .)).
The second condition is(in
view of[4] Proposition 1.10.2, say)
alinearity
condition.We now define the notion of covariant derivation :
Definition 3.1. Let X and Y be vector fields on M. The covariant derivative of Y with
respect
toX,
denotedpXY,
is the vector fieldgiven by
This
expression
forVxY
in terms ofstrong
difference is without doubt knownby
Kolar andWhite,
but we could not find a ref-erence. In the
generality
we work inhere,
it iseasily
seen to coincidewith the definition in
[7].
As a firstapplication,
we shall prove the Koszullaw,
which in[7]
couldonly
beproved
when TM -> M was a loc-ally
trivial bundle(which
for theapplication
to classicalgeometry
would restrict its use to smooth(singularity free) M).
Proposition
3.2(Koszul’s law).
L et X and Y be vector fields onM ,
and f : M -> R a function. ThenProof. Let us calculate the left hand side at a
point
x e M. Weget by
definition that it
equals
by Proposition
2.4. From thegeneral principle
forcalculating
in translation spaces(as
stated beforeProposition 2.3),
we may cancel the second and fourthterm,
toget
provided
this latterexpression
makes sense. But the two2-tangents
thatoccur here are
given by
respectively,
whichclearly
agree whendl =
0 or d2 = 0. Thus thestrong
difference(3.1)
does make sense. It is calculatedby considering
themap I : (DxD)VD ->
Mgiven by
since
putting
e = 0 hereyields (3.3),
andputting
e = di.d2yields, by
definition of the directional derivative
X(f),
which is
(3.2). Thus,
the difference(3.1)
itself is 1(0, 0, -)
whichis
clearly X(f) .Y(x),
as desired. 0As a second
application
we shall define theconnection-map
a3SO-ciated to the connection V . If T: DxD -> M is a
2-tangent
at x EM,
let t 1 and t2 be the twotangent
vectors at x obtainedby
restriction of Talong
the two axes. Thestrong
difference between T andV(ti, t2)
is another
tangent
at x which we denoteC( T ).
Thus weget
a mapFor
instance,
the definition ofVxY
can be writtenVX Y
=C(Y.X).
Onedefines then the torsion associated to V
by
(where
S is the twist map, asabove),
orsubstituting
also the definition of C in terms of -’The
proof
of thefollowing
classicalidentity
will now be almostpure
"translation-space"
calculations :Proposition
3.3. Let V be a connection with torsion T . Then for anypair
of vector fieldsX,
Y we haveProof. The left hand side is
spelled
out in(3.4).
Theright
hand sideis, by
Definition 3.1:The first
parenthesis
here also occurs in(3.4),
so it suffices to proveThe left hand side
equals -((Y.X) o
S =X.Y)
because this makes sense,so that we may calculate as in an abelian group. This in turn
equals
-[-Y, X] , by Proposition 2.5,
whichis -[X, Y].
04. The ray
property,
and sprays.We finish
by
another instance ofstrong
infinitesimallinearity.
In
[5] (inspired by [21),
the first authorproved
asynthetic
form of theAmbrose-Palais-Singer Theorem, utilizing
a"ray property
of order 2 relative to Rn ". We recall the definition :The
object
M satisfies the rayproperty
of order r , relative toRn,
if M"perceives
thefollowing diagram
as acoequalizer" :
(Precisely :
The contravariant functorM(-) :
E + E converts(4.1)
intoan
equalizer.)
Proposition
4.1. If M isinfinitesimally
linear in thestrong
sense, M sat- isfies the rayproperty
of order r relative to Rn(for
any r,n).
Proof. We do the case r = 2
only.
We first note that thediagram
is a
quasi-coequalizer (with u’, v’,
w’ defined with the same formulasas u, v and w
above).
Infact,
considerwhere X =
(Xi,
...,Xn)
and where thek-algebra homomorphisms
aregiv-
en
by
formulas similar to u, v and w :This is an
equalizer diagram
in thecategory
ofk-algebras,
as can beseen
by
a consideration of totaldegrees. Dividing
outby
relevantideals in
(4.3) gives
adiagram
of Weilalgebras
whoseSpec
is(4.2),
andthis
diagram
of Weilalgebras
is anequalizer (this
can be seenby
obviouscanonical vector space
splitting
of thedividing-out maps). Consequently (4.2)
is aquasi-coequalizer.
Thus Mperceives
it as acoequalizer.
Consider now the
diagram (straight arrows)
ut
where f o u = f o v. Since M
perceives
the upper row as acoequalizer,
we
get
aunique
f’(dotted arrow)
with f’ o w’ = foi. It remains to beproved
that f = f’ o w. This resultseasily
from the fact that Mperceives
themultiplication D2
xD2-> D2
to besurjective (specialize
the
quasi-coequalizer (4.2)
to n =1).
So we test f =f’ o w
on an element of form(01.0 2’ x) (6i
ED2,x
E R).
We haveproving
theProposition.
0We
present
now some considerations from[ 5 ]
on sprays.According
to Smale(cf. [121,
Definition6),
a spray on M may be def- ined as a mapwhich
splits
the restriction maparising
from D --D2,
and commuteswith fibrewise
multiplication by
scalars.Thus,
for t ETxM, 8
eD2,
wehave
Q(t)( 6)
E Mdefined,
andAssume that M is
infinitesimally
linear in thestrong
sense, and thatTxM = Rn
for each x E M.By Proposition 4.1,
M has the ray pro-perty
withrespect
toRn,
hence withrespect
to.TxM (the subob ject D2(Tx M)
may be defined as the image of
D2(n)
under one, or any,isomorphism
TXM=Rn). Using (4.1)
with r = 2 and withD2(TXM)
instead ofDr (n)
the map o :
D2
xTXM ->
Mgiven by
coequalizes
u and vby (4.5),
so weget
a mapand which satisfies
by (4.4).
The collection of thee,,’s
define a map e from a certain subsetD 2(TM)
toM,
and this map is the2-jet
of theexponential
map of the spray .A
symmetric (=
torsionfree)
connection V may now be associated to aby putting (for ti tangents at x )
noting
thatdi
E Dimplies
that the vectord1.t1 + d2.t2
isactually
in
D2(TxM).
In the first author’s
proof
of theAmbrose-Palais-Singer
Theoremin
[5],
the rayproperty (of
order2)
for M(with respect
toTX M)
was the
only property
which was not(by then)
subsumed understrong
infinitesimallinearity. By
the considerations above(based
onProposition 4.1),
we can nowsharpen
the formulation of theAmbrose-Palais-Singer
Theorem of loc. cit. into
Theorem 4.2. Let M be
infinitesimally
linear in thestrong
sense, withTXM = Rn
Vxe M. Then there are natural .bi jective correspondences
between the
following
three kind of data :(j)
sprays o :MD ->MD2,
V:
MD
XMMD
->MD
xD,
(ii) symmetric
connections V:MD
XMMD
->MD x 0,
(iii) "partial exponential maps",
i.e. maps e :D2(MD)->
MM which sat-(The remaining correspondence,
from(ii)
to(i),
issimply
thatIn
particular, applying (i)
->(ii)
in afully well-adapted
modelfor
synthetic
differentialgeometry yields
the classical Ambrose-Palais-Singer
Theorem forordinary
smooth manifolds. Thepresent proof
thuscompletes
theproofs given
in[5]
and in thepreliminary
version of[2].
A. KOCK :
Matematisk Institut Aarhus Universitet Ny Munkegade
DK-8000 AARHUS C. DANMARK
and
R. LA VENDHOMME :
Institut de
Math6matiques
2, Chemin du CyclotronB-1348 LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE. BELGIUM
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