nLab adjoint bundle

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For GG a Lie group and 𝔤\mathfrak{g} its Lie algebra, and for PXP \to X a GG-principal bundle, the corresponding adjoint bundle is the associated bundle P× G𝔤XP \times_G \mathfrak{g} \to X via the adjoint action/adjoint representation of GG on 𝔤\mathfrak{g}.

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