Induced connection on submanifold

Definition

For a submanifold of a Riemannian manifold

Suppose $M$ is a Riemannian manifold, $N$ is a submanifold. Then $TN$ is a subbundle of the bundle $TM|_{N}$. The Riemannian metric on $M$ naturally gives a notion of "projection" from $TM|_{N}$ to $TN$.

Then, given any linear connection $\nabla$ on $M$, we obtain an induced connection $\nabla |_{N}$ on $N$. The induced connection is defined as follows. For $X,Y\in \Gamma (TM)$, we have:

$(\nabla |_{N})_{X}Y:=(\nabla _{X}Y)^{tan}$

The definition packs the following steps:

• First, using the tubular neighborhood theorem, consider a tubular neighborhood $U\supset N$ in $M$
• Extend $X,Y$ to vector fields on $U$ by Fill this in later
• Evaluate $\nabla _{X}Y$ on this open set $U$, to get a vector field on $U$
• Restrict the vector field to $N$. This gives a section of the bundle $TM|_{N}$
• Project this from $TM|_{N}$ to $TN$

Crudely speaking, we use the connection on $M$, and project the output vector field we get, onto $TN$.