5 citations
2 papers
gr-qc2013★ 1 cited
The use of the teleparallelism connection in continuum mechanics
D. H. Delphenich
The geometry of parallelizable manifolds (i.e., teleparallelism) is summarized in the language of local frame fields. Some problems in continuum mechanics that relate to the couple…
math-ph2012★ 5 cited
The role of integrability in a large class of physical systems
David Delphenich
A large class of physical systems involves the vanishing of a 1-form on a manifold as a constraint on the acceptable states. This means that one is always dealing with the Pfaff pr…