Non-holonomic connections following Élie Cartan

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciencias

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 165-190

  Koiller, Jair ^a   Rodrigues, Paulo R ^b   Pitanga, Paulo ^c  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Affine connections; Cartan's equivalence method; Non holonomic mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013135927     PISSN: 00013765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0001-37652001000200003     Document Type: Article

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