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Conformal structures and connections

Part I Proceedings Of The International Colloquium Of The C.N.R.S. Held At Aix-en-Provence, September 3–7, 1979 Edited By J.M. Souriau

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  • Field Equation
  • Conformal Structure
  • Scalar Density
  • Affine Connection
  • Invariant Bilinear Form

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Jadczyk, A.Z. (1980). Conformal structures and connections. In: García, P.L., Pérez-Rendón, A., Souriau, J.M. (eds) Differential Geometrical Methods in Mathematical Physics. Lecture Notes in Mathematics, vol 836. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0089736

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