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# Connections and Parallel Transport

@article{Dumitrescu2009ConnectionsAP,
title={Connections and Parallel Transport},
author={Florin Dumitrescu},
journal={arXiv: Differential Geometry},
year={2009}
}
In this short note we give an elementary proof of the fact that connections and their geometric parallel-transport counterpart are equivalent notions.
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