Moving frames and coframes
A very clear review of the recent adaptation of the classical moving frames proposed by the same authors in [Acta Appl. Math. 51, 161--213 (1998; Zbl 0937.53012)] is presented without proofs but with an illustrative example from affine geometry. To draw the main idea, let \(G\) be a Lie group acting on a manifold \(M\). Local coordinates \(z=(x,y)\) on \(M\) are introduced and they provide the local coordinates \(z^{(n)}=(x,u^{(n)})\) of the space \(J^n\) of \(n\)-jets of submanifolds of \(M\). Assuming the existence of the \(n\)th prolongation \(G^{(n)}\) acting on \(J^n\), the authors distinguish between differential invariants (functions on \(J^n)\) and lifted differential invariants (functions on the bundle \(G\times J^n)\); the latter can be (in principle) easily calculated. An equivariant map \(\rho^{(n)}:J^n\to G\) is called a moving frame and the procedure finishes by taking special cross-sections of regular group orbits (the Cartan normalization). \{Reviewer's remark: É. Cartan's device, the systematic use of structural formulae, is avoided in this approach and it seems that most of the classical applications in differential geometry cannot be easily obtained if one follows the proposed algorithm\}. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0958.00042].
- Moving frames
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2124912
- The moving frames for differential equations. I: The change of independent variable.
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1736017
- Solving local equivalence problems with the equivariant moving frame method
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5645917
- Lectures on moving frames
- Generating differential invariants
- From Frenet to Cartan. The method of moving frames
- On the Modern Notion of a Moving Frame
- Moving coframes. II: Regularization and theoretical foundations
- G-moving frames and their applications in dynamics
- Moving frames and singularities of prolonged group actions
- Recursive moving frames
- Moving frames
- The geometry of differential constraints for a class of evolution PDEs
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 7031437 (Why is no real title available?)
- Moving frames hierarchy and BF theory
- The problem of constructive equivalence in differential geometry
- Moving frame formulations of 4-geometries having isometries
- On the Modern Notion of a Moving Frame
- Frameworks with Coordinated Edge Motions
- A note on frame dragging
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4187176 (Why is no real title available?)
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