Natural connections on Stiefel bundles are sourceless gauge fields

✍ Scribed by Nowakowski, Jerzy; Trautman, Andrzej

Book ID: 120811305
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Year: 1978
Tongue: English
Weight: 626 KB
Volume: 19
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-2488
DOI: 10.1063/1.523755

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