The canonical Cartan bundle and connection in CR geometry

2006/05/02 by Herzlich, Marc
#53B21 #53C15 #Differential Geometry (math.DG) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.math/0605055

Abstract

We give a differential geometric description of the Cartan (or tractor) bundle and its canonical connection in CR geometry, thus offering a direct, alternative, definition to the usual abstract approach.

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