Moving frames for cotangent bundles

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(02)80021-0MaRDI QIDQ1853814zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Kurt Ehlers, Jair Koiller, Pedro de M. Rios

Publication date 22 January 2003

Published in Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0203014

zbMATH Keywords

nonholonomic systemsRiemannian geometryconnectionsHamiltonian dynamicscotangent bundlesmoving frames

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Nonholonomic systems related to the dynamics of a system of particles (70F25) Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics (70G45) Nonholonomic dynamical systems (37J60)

Abstract: Cartan's moving frames method is a standard tool in riemannian geometry. We set up the machinery for applying moving frames to cotangent bundles and its sub-bundles defined by non-holonomic constraints.

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