The geometry of the bundle of connections

DOI10.1007/PL00004852zbMath0977.53020OpenAlexW1583928317MaRDI QIDQ5947772

Marco Castrillón López, Jaime Muñoz Masqué

Publication date: 22 October 2001

Published in: Mathematische Zeitschrift (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/pl00004852

zbMATH Keywords

principal bundlebundle of connectionscanonical contact formcurvature formgeneralized symplectic formuniversal curvature

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Jets in global analysis (58A20) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Connections (general theory) (53C05)

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