1012.4926 (J. J. Sławianowski et al.)

Affine Bodies Revisited. Constraints, Symmetry, Analytical Methods and
Some Perspectives    [PDF]

J. J. Sławianowski, B. Gołubowska, E. E. Rożko, V. Kovalchuk, A. Martens, E. Gobcewicz

The purpose of this publication is to derive and discuss equations of motion of affinely rigid (homogeneously deformable) body moving in Euclidean space of general dimension $n$. Our aim is to present some analytical methods and to discuss geometric structure and invariance properties of the theory. Some perspectives of further developments are also discussed.

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