The Wagner Curvature Tensor in Nonholonomic Mechanics

Details The Wagner Curvature Tensor in Nonholonomic Mechanics The Wagner Curvature Tensor in Nonholonomic Mechanics

2003-04-11

arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0304018v1

Reg. Chaot. Dyn., 2003, 8 (1), 105-124

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Mathematical Physics

22 pages

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We present the classical Wagner construction from 1935 of the curvature tensor for completely nonholonomic manifolds in both invariant and coordinate way. The starting point is the Shouten curvature tensor for nonholonomic connection introduced by Vranceanu and Shouten. We illustrate the construction on two mechanical examples: the case of a homogeneous disc rolling without sliding on a horizontal plane and the case of a homogeneous ball rolling without sliding on a fixed sphere. In the second case we study the conditions on the ratio of diameters of the ball and the sphere to obtain a flat space - with the Wagner curvature tensor equal zero.

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