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Maurer-Cartan form and Levi-Civita connection
I am coming from this question, which has not being completely answered but I think is very interesting.
In several works ([Chern], [Griffiths] and [Clelland]) the Maurer-Cartan form for $E(n)$ is ...
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What is the space parametrising the curved sub-Cartan geometries of a flat Cartan geometry?
I'm basically wondering how to make "curved" the first column of the diagram
$\require{AMScd}$
\begin{CD}
P_1 @>\textrm{inclusion} >> G\\
@V \omega_0 V P_1\cap P_2 V @V\omega V P_2 V\\...
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tensor hierarchy for Lie groups from Maurer-Cartan form
The question is about the family of tensors that are naturally associated to any nice Lie group.
Take the Mauer-Cartan form, $\omega=g^{-1} dg$ and I would like to make the covariant index of this one-...