Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2022/iii/paper-115/4/b/solution

For a principal connection with connection form , the horizontal distribution of a principal connection is , the complement of the tangent spaces to the -orbits. Its curvature of a principal connection is
If are horizontal vector fields, then , and hence
The Frobenius theorem says that is integrable exactly when is horizontal for all horizontal . The displayed identity makes this equivalent to the vanishing of the horizontal two-form , hence to . Thus the horizontal distribution is integrable exactly for a flat principal connection.

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