On the kinematic geometry of many-body systems

DOI10.1142/S0252959999000047zbMath0936.70006MaRDI QIDQ1284262

Wu-yi Hsiang

Publication date: 26 July 1999

Published in: Chinese Annals of Mathematics. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1142/s0252959999000047

zbMATH Keywords

configuration space; potential functions; equivariant Riemannian geometry; equivariant isomorphism; Jacobi inner product; subspace of binary collisions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

70B10: Kinematics of a rigid body

70G45: Differential geometric methods (tensors, connections, symplectic, Poisson, contact, Riemannian, nonholonomic, etc.) for problems in mechanics

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics