scientific article; zbMATH DE number 914851

Publication date: 11 August 1996

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distributions connections foliations Cartan geometries Maurer-Cartan form fiber bundles Klein geometries

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to differential geometry (53-01) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Fiber bundles in algebraic topology (55R10)

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