TITLE: Does every section of $J^r L$ come from some section $s\in H^0(C,L)$, with $L$ line bundle on a compact Riemann surface?
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: I am working with jet bundles on compact Riemann surfaces. So if we have a line bundle $L$ on a compact Riemann surface $C$ we can associate to it the $r$-th jet bundle $J^rL$ on $C$, which is a bundle of rank $r+1$. If we have a section $s\in H^0(C,L)$ then there is an induced section $D^rs\in H^0(C,J^rL)$ which is defined, locally on an open subset $U\subset C$ trivializing both $L$ and $\omega_C$, as the $(r+1)$-tuple $(f,f',\dots,f^{(r)})$, where $f\in O_C(U)$ represents $s$ on $U$.

Question 1. Does every section of $J^rL$ come from some $s\in
H^0(C,L)$ this way?
Question 2. Do you know of any reference for a general description of
  the transition matrices attached to $J^rL$? I only know them for $r=1$
  up to now and I am working on $r=2$.

Thank you in advance.

REPLY [3 votes]: This is rather old so maybe you figured out the answers already.
Answer to Q1 is No. Not every global section of $J^r L$ comes from the "prolongation" of a section of $L$, not even locally. Consider for example the section in $J^1(\mathcal{O}_\mathbb{C})$ given in coordinates by $(0,1)$ (constant sections $0$ and $1$). This is obviously not of the form $(f,f')$.
The second question: maybe you find the explicit formulas for the transition of charts in  Saunders "Geometry of Jet Bundle".