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The results reported here, whose detailed versions will appear in [1, 2], concern connections in bundles over a foliated manifold and the interplay between the geometry of the connection and the topology of the foliation. Here we only give the proofs of Theorems 1 and 3.
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- Universal Cover
- Tangent Bundle
- Normal Bundle
- Riemannian Foliation
- Canonical Connection
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Blumenthal, R.A. (1985). Connections on foliated manifolds. In: Ławrynowicz, J. (eds) Seminar on Deformations. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 1165. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0076144
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