 Canonical principal connection on the Stiefel bundle over a Grassmannian (source code)

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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 $Q^{\mathsf T}Q=I$, the connection form is
$$
\mathcal A=Q^{\mathsf T}dQ\in\mathfrak o(k).
$$

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