Derivations of forms along a map: The framework for time-dependent second-order equations

DOI10.1016/0926-2245(95)00013-TzbMath0831.58003WikidataQ115362563 ScholiaQ115362563MaRDI QIDQ1894752

A. Vandecasteele, Frans Cantrijn, Eduardo Martínez, Willy Sarlet

Publication date: 13 February 1996

Published in: Differential Geometry and its Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

derivationsconnectionstangent bundlesecond-order equations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Differential forms in global analysis (58A10) General theory of differentiable manifolds (58A99) Connections (general theory) (53C05) Vector distributions (subbundles of the tangent bundles) (58A30)

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