In mathematics, an adjoint bundle is a vector bundle naturally associated to any principal bundle. The fibers of the adjoint bundle carry a Lie algebra structure making the adjoint bundle into an algebra bundle. Adjoint bundles have important applications in the theory of connections as well as in gauge theory.
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