在数学，特别是微分几何中，一个联络形式（connection form）是用活动标架与微分形式的语言处理联络数据的一种方式。

历史上联络形式由埃利·嘉当在二十世纪上半叶引入，作为他活动标架方法的一部分，也是其主要促进因素之一。联络形式一般取决于标架的选取，从而不是一个张量性对象。在嘉当最初的工作之后，涌现出联络形式的各种推广与重新解释。特别地，在一个主丛上，一个主联络是将联络形式自然重新解释为一个张量性对象。另一方面，联络形式作为定义在微分流形上的微分形式与在一个抽象的主丛上相比，有其优越性。从而，尽管它们不满足张量性，联络形式依然被使用，因为利用它们计算相对简单 。在物理学中，联络形式在规范理论中通过规范共变微分也广泛应用。

In mathematics, and specifically differential geometry, a connection form is a manner of organizing the data of a connection using the language of moving frames and differential forms.

Historically, connection forms were introduced by Élie Cartan in the first half of the 20th century as part of, and one of the principal motivations for, his method of moving frames. The connection form generally depends on a choice of frame, and so is not a tensorial object. Various generalizations and reinterpretations of the connection form were formulated subsequent to Cartan's initial work. In particular, on a principal bundle, a principal connection is a natural reinterpretation of the connection form as a tensorial object. On the other hand, the connection form has the advantage that it is a differential form defined on the differentiable manifold, rather than on an abstract principal bundle over it. Hence, despite their lack of tensoriality, connection forms continue to be used because of the relative ease of performing calculations with them. In physics, connection forms are also used broadly in the context of gauge theory, through the gauge covariant derivative.