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Institut fuer Mathematik, Universitaet Wien
Nordbergstrasse 15, A-1090 Wien, Austria
E-mail: matthias.hammerl@univie.ac.at
Abstract. We describe invariant principal and Cartan connections on homogeneous principal bundles and show how to calculate the curvature and the holonomy; in the case of an invariant Cartan connection we give a formula for the infinitesimal automorphisms. The main result of this paper is that the above calculations are purely algorithmic. As an example of an homogeneous parabolic geometry we treat a conformal structure on the product of two spheres.
AMSclassification. 53A30, 53B15, 53C29, 53C30.
Keywords. Cartan geometry, homogeneous space, infinitesimal automorphism, holonomy, conformal geometry.