The group structure for jet bundles over Lie groups

Abstract

The jet bundle $J^kG$ of $k$-jets of curves in a Lie group $G$ has a natural Lie group structure. We present an explicit formula for the group multiplication in the right trivialization and for the group 2-cocycle describing the abelian Lie group extension $\mathfrak{g}\to J^{k}G\to J^{k-1}G$.