Holonomy around circular fibres
ID: holonomy-around-circular-fibres
For the Riemannian metric , where and has period , parallel transport around acts on the orthonormal basis components of a tangent vector by a rotation through . Indeed, those components obey and as functions of . Thus all tangent vectors return to themselves exactly when . The integer criterion concerns holonomy and is stronger than local flatness.
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