Differential Calculus in Triole Algebras

Abstract: This work is the first in a series of papers that, among other things, extends the formalism of diolic differential calculus, wherein a new context for obtaining differential calculus in vector bundles was established. Here we provide a modest but interesting generalization of this formalism to include a class of vector bundles with additional inner structure provided by fiber metrics that we call triole algebras. We discuss the basics of a triolic-linear algebra and study various functors of differential calculus over these algebraic objects. In doing so, we establish a conceptual framework for making sense of calculus on bundles that preserve a vector-valued fiber metric structure.