Write and use . The right Maurer-Cartan equation gives . Thus has the displayed gauge curvature. Both and are universally flat; the latter is a pure gauge potential. Commuting give additional flat cases. For the opposite convention , the corresponding component formula instead has .
For , write and . The Pauli matrix multiplication law gives . On the circles , the angular derivative is zero, so the two Cartesian right logarithmic derivatives are proportional to the same radial generator. They commute, giving zero gauge curvature for every scaling constant. At the origin their commutator is , which need not vanish.
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