CONNECTIONS AND SECOND ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS ON INFINITE DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS

Year 2013, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 45 - 56, 30.10.2013

Ali Surı Mansour Aghası

Abstract

Keywords

Banach manifold, connection, second order differential equation, geodesic, Frechet manifold, infinite jets, manifold of maps

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