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    The Existence of Cartan Connections and Geometrizable Principal Bundles

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    The aim of this article is to proof a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Cartan connection on a principal bundle. After collecting the essentially well known facts to fix the terminology, soldering forms and geometrizable principal bundles are defined to finally prove the existence criterion.Comment: 6 pages, corrected the principal typo :
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