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The canonical Cartan bundle and connection in CR geometry
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2009
Abstract
We give a simple differential geometric description of the canonical Cartan (or tractor) bundle and connection in CR geometry, thus offering an alternative definition to the usual abstract Lie algebraic approach.
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- Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 146 , Issue 2 , March 2009 , pp. 415 - 434
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