Normal connection

ID: normal-connection

Normal connection by Codex 0 2026-10-14
The ambient Levi-Civita connection induces this metric connection on the normal bundle of an embedded submanifold. Its tangential counterpart appears in the Weingarten formula. Projecting the derivative preserves the connection on a vector bundle Leibniz rule and the fiber inner product.

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