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• Affine connection — An affine connection on the sphere rolls the affine tangent plane from one point to another. As it does so, the point of contact traces out a curve in the plane: the development. In the branch of mathematics called differential geometry, an… …   Wikipedia

• Connection (principal bundle) — This article is about connections on principal bundles. See connection (mathematics) for other types of connections in mathematics. In mathematics, a connection is a device that defines a notion of parallel transport on the bundle; that is, a way …   Wikipedia

• Connection (vector bundle) — This article is about connections on vector bundles. See connection (mathematics) for other types of connections in mathematics. In mathematics, a connection on a fiber bundle is a device that defines a notion of parallel transport on the bundle; …   Wikipedia

• Connection (mathematics) — In geometry, the notion of a connection makes precise the idea of transporting data along a curve or family of curves in a parallel and consistent manner. There are a variety of kinds of connections in modern geometry, depending on what sort of… …   Wikipedia

• Affine curvature — This article is about the curvature of affine plane curves, not to be confused with the curvature of an affine connection. Special affine curvature, also known as the equi affine curvature or affine curvature, is a particular type of curvature… …   Wikipedia

• Connection form — In mathematics, and specifically differential geometry, a connection form is a manner of organizing the data of a connection using the language of moving frames and differential forms. Historically, connection forms were introduced by Élie Cartan …   Wikipedia

• Projective connection — In differential geometry, a projective connection is a type of Cartan connection on a differentiable manifold. The structure of a projective connection is modeled on the geometry of projective space, rather than the affine space corresponding to… …   Wikipedia

• Affine manifold — In differential geometry, an affine manifold is a manifold equipped with a flat, torsion free connection. Equivalently, it is a manifold that is (if connected) covered by an open subset of {Bbb R}^n, with monodromy acting by affine… …   Wikipedia

• Cartan connection — In the mathematical field of differential geometry, a Cartan connection is a flexible generalization of the notion of an affine connection. It may also be regarded as a specialization of the general concept of a principal connection, in which the …   Wikipedia

• Ehresmann connection — In differential geometry, an Ehresmann connection (after the French mathematician Charles Ehresmann who first formalized this concept) is a version of the notion of a connection which is defined on arbitrary fibre bundles. In particular, it may… …   Wikipedia

• Levi-Civita connection — In Riemannian geometry, the Levi Civita connection is the torsion free Riemannian connection, i.e., the torsion free connection on the tangent bundle (an affine connection) preserving a given (pseudo )Riemannian metric.The fundamental theorem of… …   Wikipedia