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    In geometry, parallel transport (or parallel translation) is a way of transporting geometrical data along smooth curves in a manifold. If the manifold...
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  • Christoffel's symbols to define the notion of parallel transport and explore the relationship of parallel transport with the curvature, thus developing the...
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  • connection on a fiber bundle is a device that defines a notion of parallel transport on the bundle; that is, a way to "connect" or identify fibers over...
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    measuring the extent to which parallel transport around closed loops fails to preserve the geometrical data being transported. For flat connections, the...
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  • _{x_{t}}:T_{x_{0}}M\to T_{x_{t}}M} the parallel transport map along x t {\displaystyle x_{t}} . The parallel transport maps are related to the covariant derivative...
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    a notion of parallel transport, which is a method for transporting tangent vectors along curves. This also defines a parallel transport on the frame...
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    norm of kg, it follows that parallel transport for an arbitrary curve can be obtained as the limit of the parallel transport on approximating piecewise...
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  • can define the parallel transport of a vector v at a point P along a curve γ starting at P. For each point x of γ, the parallel transport of v at x will...
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    Euclidean space with imaginary radius and imaginary timelike coordinate. Parallel transport of polarization vectors along such sphere gives rise to Thomas precession...
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  • of transporting local geometric objects, such as tangent vectors or tensors in the tangent space, along a curve or family of curves in a parallel and...
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    generally, Schild's ladder is a first-order method for approximating parallel transport of a vector along a curve using only affinely parametrized geodesics...
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    The environmental effects of transport are significant because transport is a major user of energy, and burns most of the world's petroleum. This creates...
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  • without reference to a metric, and many additional concepts follow: parallel transport, covariant derivatives, geodesics, etc. also do not require the concept...
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  • turning of this path. Thus the orientation of the pendulum undergoes parallel transport. For the original Foucault pendulum, the path is a circle of latitude...
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  • transport the vector (keeping it parallel) first along the equator to the point P, then drag it along a meridian to the N pole, and finally transport...
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  • Furthermore, many of the features of the covariant derivative still remain: parallel transport, curvature, and holonomy. The missing ingredient of the connection...
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  • effect of parallel transporting a vector between two points along two curves. The discrepancy between the results of these two parallel transport routes...
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  • Cartan and Hermann Weyl in the early part of the twentieth century: parallel transport, covariant derivative and connection form. These concepts were put...
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    numerical approaches to neutron transport have become prevalent. Today, with massively parallel computers, neutron transport is still under very active development...
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    about the vertical axis. 2D computer graphics#Translation Advection Parallel transport Rotation matrix Scaling (geometry) Transformation matrix Translational...
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  • Parallel translation may refer to: parallel transport, in mathematics parallel text, in translation This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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    that the space of velocities in relativity is hyperbolic, and so parallel transport of a vector (the gyroscope's angular velocity) around a circle (its...
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    remaining unaffected. Parallel Transport Unfolding : Replaces the Dijkstra path-based geodesic distance estimates with parallel transport based approximations...
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    Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel...
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    Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided...
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  • theory, Wilson loops are gauge invariant operators arising from the parallel transport of gauge variables around closed loops. They encode all gauge information...
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  • obey conservation principles and those that do not. In the case of parallel transport on a sphere, the distinction is clear: a Riemannian manifold has a...
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    Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to...
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  • differential operators on certain associated bundles, hence a notion of parallel transport. They have many applications in geometry and physics: see the method...
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  • regards to properties of parallel transport of vectors and their length. By demanding that a manifold have an affine parallel transport in such a way that the...
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