Friday 6 October 2017

Lecture 23 - Parallel Transport (Schuller's Geometric Anatomy of Theoretical Physics)

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Summary of contents: horizontal lifts of a curve to the principal bundle; ODE characterising horizontal lifts; explicit solution in the case of a matrix Lie group; path-ordered exponential; parallel transport map; loops and holonomy groups; horizontal lifts to the associated bundle; parallel transport map on the associated bundle; covariant derivative of a section.

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