多様体上の局所ループ系とアフィン接続

抄録・要旨

The concepts of topological loops (Hofmann [2]) and analytic loops (Malcev [5]) lead us to the concept of differentiable local loops (§ 2, Definition 1) and local loops on manifolds have been studied by the author ([3]). Namely, in a differentiable manifold with an affine connection, each point has a neighbourhood which is a differentiable local loop with a binary operation defined by means of the parallel displacement of geodesics ([3] Theorem 1).
In the present paper, differentiable manifold with a system which assigns to each point a neighbourhood with a structure of local loop will be introduced (§ 2, Definition 2) and it will be shown that an affine connection of a manifold is determined by such a system (§ 3, Theorem 1). In particular, it will be proved that if a differentiable manifold M with an affine connection г is given then г coincides with the affine connection г_∑ of M which is determined by the system ∑ of local loops associated with г (Theorem 2).