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Keywords:
natural bundle; gauge-natural bundle; natural operator; principal bundle; principal connection
Summary:
We consider a vector bundle $E\rightarrow M$ and the principal bundle $PE$ of frames of $E$. We determine all natural transformations of the connection bundle of the first order principal prolongation of principal bundle $PE$ into itself.
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