Cartan connection of transversally Finsler foliation

Andrzej Miernowski

Abstract


The purpose of this paper is to define transversal Cartan connection
of Finsler foliation and to prove its existence and uniqueness.

Keywords


Finsler metric; normal bundle; Cartan connection

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10062-012-0005-1
Date of publication: 2016-07-24 20:22:25
Date of submission: 2016-07-24 15:54:19


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