Energy-preserving affine connections
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Authors
Lewis, Andrew D.
Date
1997
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en_US
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Abstract
A Riemannian affine connection on a Riemannian manifold has the property that
is preserves the ``kinetic energy'' associated with the metric. However,
there are other affine connections which have this property, and here we
characterise them. A class of such energy-preserving affine connections,
related to mechanical systems with constraints, is provided.
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Preprint