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To account for all possible contractions allowed by the presence of the solder form, a generalized Hodge dual must be defined in the case of soldered bundles. Although for curvature the generalized dual coincides with the usual one, for torsion it gives a new dual definition.
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Aldrovandi, R., Pereira, J.G. (2013). Hodge Dual for Soldered Bundles. In: Teleparallel Gravity. Fundamental Theories of Physics, vol 173. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5143-9_8
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