Glossary of Differential Geometry and Topology - P

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Parallelizable. A smooth manifold is parallelizable if it admits a smooth global frame. This is equivalent to the tangent bundle being trivial.

Principal bundle. A principal bundle is a fiber bundle PB together with an action on P by a Lie group G that preserves the fibers of P and acts simply transitively on those fibers.

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