A study of statistical submersions.

In the sixties, A. Gray [19] and B. O'Neill [27] come with the notion of Riemannian submersions as a tool to study the geometry of a Riemannian manifold with an additional structure in terms of the fibers and the base space. Riemannian submersions have long been an effective tool to construct Riemannian manifolds with positive or nonnegative sectional curvature in Riemannian geometry and compare certain manifolds within differential geometry. In particular, many examples of Einstein manifolds can be constructed by using such submersions. It is very well known that Riemannian submersions have applications in physics, for example Kaluza-Klein theory, Yang-Mills theory, supergravity and superstring theories. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]