nLab frame field

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Definition

A frame field is locally a section of a frame bundle (of a manifold), hence a collection of vector fields that form a basis of the tangent space at each point.

References

On submanifolds of Euclidean space via (the algebraic geometry of) their higher-dimensional coframe fields:

In the context of first-order formulation of gravity:

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