On the triviality of the generalized tangent bundle

Abstract

We study the relations between the triviality of the tangent bundle $TM$ and the generalized tangent bundle $\mathbb{T}M = TM\oplus T^*M$ of a manifold. We show that the generalized tangent bundle of a paralellizable manifold is trivial. We also prove that the converse implication does not hold, by studying the cases of the Möbius strip, spheres and projective spaces. Finally, we relate the triviality of the generalized tangent bundle to generalized geometric structures.