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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 January 2016
In this paper we define some lifts of tensor fields of types (1, k) and (0, k) as well as connections to a product preserving functor . We study algebraic properties of introduced lifts and we apply these lifts to prolongation of geometric structures from a manifold M to
(M). In particular cases of the tangent bundle of pr -velocities and the tangent bundle of infinitesimal near points our constructions contain all constructions due to Morimoto (see [20]-[23]). In the cases of the tangent bundle our definitions coincide with the definitions of Yano and Kobayashi (see [31]). To construct our lifts and to study its properties we use only general properties of product preserving functors. All lifts verify so-called the naturality condition. It means that for a smooth mapping φ:M → N and for two φ-related geometric objects defined on M and N its lifts to
(M) and
(N) respectively are
(φ)-related. We explain later the term φ-related for considered geometric objects.