ArticleOriginal scientific text
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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