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Is the bundle of the Aharonov-Bohm effect like the tangent bundle of a cylinder or like the tangent bundle of a truncated cone?

Both are trivial bundles, and the natural (metric) connection is flat (curvature-free) for both. The difference between them is that the holonomy of the tangent bundle of the cylinder is trivial while ...
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