Moving Coframes: II. Regularization and Theoretical Foundations

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 127-208

  Fels, Mark ^a   Olver, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Differential invariant; Equivalence; Jet bundle; Lie group; Moving frame; Prolongation; Rigidity; Symmetry; Syzygy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001616691     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006195823000     Document Type: Article

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