Coframe
In mathematics, a coframe or coframe field on a smooth manifold is a system of one-forms or covectors which form a basis of the cotangent bundle at every point. In the exterior algebra of
, one has a natural map from
, given by
. If
is
dimensional a coframe is given by a section
of
such that
. The inverse image under
of the complement of the zero section of
forms a
principal bundle over
, which is called the coframe bundle.