Main ideas of the differential geometry on affine bundles are presented.
Affine counterparts of Lie algebroid and Poisson structures are introduced and
discussed. The developed concepts are applied in a frame-independent
formulation of the time-dependent and the Newtonian mechanics.
@article{0510069,
author = {Grabowska, K. and Grabowski, J. and Urbanski, P.},
title = {Frame-independent mechanics:geometry on affine bundles},
journal = {arXiv},
volume = {2005},
number = {0},
year = {2005},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/0510069}
}
Grabowska, K.; Grabowski, J.; Urbanski, P. Frame-independent mechanics:geometry on affine bundles. arXiv, Tome 2005 (2005) no. 0, . http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/0510069/