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Canonical principal connection on the Stiefel bundle over a Grassmannian
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Canonical principal connection on the Stiefel bundle over a Grassmannian
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2026-09-28
For the principal
O
(
k
)
-bundle of orthonormal
k
-
frames
over the real
Grassmannian
, the canonical horizontal
vectors
move every
frame
vector
orthogonally to the spanned
plane
. If
a
frame
is represented by
a
matrix
Q
with
Q
T
Q
=
I
, the
connection form
is
A
=
Q
T
d
Q
∈
o
(
k
)
.
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