Non-holonomic connections following Élie Cartan

Non-holonomic connections following Élie Cartan

In this note we revisit E. Cartan's address at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians at Bologna, Italy. The distributions considered here will be of the same class as those considered by Cartan, a special type which we call strongly or maximally non-holonomic. We set up the groundwo...

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Main Authors: JAIR KOILLER, PAULO R. RODRIGUES, PAULO PITANGA
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Academia Brasileira de Ciências 2001-06-01
Series:Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Subjects:
mecânica não holonômica
método de equivalência de Cartan
conexões afins
non-holonomic mechanics
Cartan's equivalence method
affine connections
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