The companion concept to associated bundles is the reduction of the structure group of a -bundle . We ask whether there is an -bundle, such that the associated -bundle is, up to isomorphism. More concretely, this asks whether the transition data for can consistently be written with values in . In other words, we ask to identify the image of the associated bundle mapping (which is actually a functor).
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