nLab flat vector bundle

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Bundles

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Differential cohomology

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Idea

A flat vector bundle is a vector bundle with connection on a vector bundle which is flat. Specifically a flat line bundle is a line bundle with flat connection.

Under the identification of local systems – in the sense of locally constant and locally free abelian sheaves – with flat vector bundles, the flat connection induced on these vector bundles is called the Gauss-Manin connection (e.g. Voisin 2002, Def. 9.13).

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