Frame Bundle - Tangent Frame Bundle

The tangent frame bundle (or simply the frame bundle) of a smooth manifold M is the frame bundle associated to the tangent bundle of M. The frame bundle of M is often denoted FM or GL(M) rather than F(TM). If M is n-dimensional then the tangent bundle has rank n, so the frame bundle of M is a principal GLn(R) bundle over M.

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