Cartan meets Chaplygin

In a note at the 1928 International Congress of Mathematicians Cartan outlined how his “method of equivalence” can provide the invariants of nonholonomic systems on a manifold 𝑄 with kinetic lagrangians [29]. Cartan indicated which changes of the metric outside the constraint distribution 𝐸 ⊂ 𝑇𝑄 pre...

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Main Authors: Ehlers Kurt M., Koiller Jair
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Serbian Society of Mechanics & Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade 2019-01-01
Series:Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-5584/2019/1450-55841900006E.pdf