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Canonical principal connection on the Stiefel bundle over a Grassmannian

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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 QTQ=I, the connection form is
A=QTdQ∈o(k).
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  • Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge / 2021 / iii / Paper 115 / 3 / d / Solution

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