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A new look at connections

Differential Geometry 2011-02-23 v1

Abstract

In this note we make use of some properties of vector fields on a manifold to give an alternate proof to [3] for the equivalence between connections and parallel transport on vector bundles over manifolds. Out of the proof will emerge a new approach to connections on a bundle as a consistent way to lift the dynamics of the manifold to the bundle.

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@article{arxiv.1102.4457,
  title  = {A new look at connections},
  author = {Florin Dumitrescu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.4457},
  year   = {2011}
}

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6 pages

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