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Our interest in connections was originally motivated (in Chapter 0) by the suggestion that such a structure would provide the unique path lifting procedure whereby one might keep track of the evolution of a particle’s internal state (e.g., phase) as it traverses the field established by some other particle (e.g., the electromagnetic field of a magnetic monopole). Topology, Geometry and Gauge Fields: Foundations by Naber