Tractor calculi for parabolic geometries

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-01-02909-9zbMath0997.53016OpenAlexW1509024364MaRDI QIDQ2781372

A. Rod Gover, Andreas Čap

Publication date: 19 March 2002

Published in: Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0002-9947-01-02909-9

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tractor calculusparabolic geometryinvariant differential operatortractor bundleCartan connectioninvariant calculus

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