Associated-connection conjecture for Lie group fiber bundles

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Let (G,M,πG,M,G)(\mathcal{G}, M, \pi_{\mathcal{G}, M}, G) be a Lie group fiber bundle with connected typical fiber GG, and let η\eta be a Lie group fiber bundle connection on it. Let (P^,M,πP^,M,Aut(G))(\hat{P}, M, \pi_{\hat{P}, M}, \operatorname{Aut}(G)) be the principal bundle constructed in the proof of Proposition 1.3.4.

Associated-connection conjecture. The connection η\eta can be seen as an associated connection to a principal connection on (P^,M,πP^,M,Aut(G))(\hat{P}, M, \pi_{\hat{P}, M}, \operatorname{Aut}(G)).

This would identify Lie group fiber bundle connections with connections induced from principal connections on the canonical principal bundle associated with the bundle. The supplied text presents this as a natural question, but gives no resolution.

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Lorenzo Fatibene and Hartwig Winterroth, “A constructive approach to generalized principal connections”, arXiv:2605.01983 (2026).

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