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Title

Cartan connection of transversally Finsler foliation

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Abstract

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

Keywords

Finsler metric, normal bundle, Cartan connection

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Main language of publication
English
Published
2012
Published online
2016-07-24
Exact and natural sciences