Talk:Holonomic

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I'm not sure, but is it correct to define a holonomic coord system as a holonomic section of the (second) jet bundle? Details would be nice.linas 02:56, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)

All differentiable coordinate systems (without critical points) are holonomic. Hence the identification of coordinate basis with holonomic basis, by the Frobenius theorem. So I deleted the references to spherical and cylindrical coordinates as being non-holonomic because they were misleading. Consider looking into holonomic and nonholonomic pseudocoordinates.

Furthermore, it's quite difficult to define the adjective holonomic in general to everyone's satisfaction. So this should probably be a disambiguation page anyway. Jholland 05:07, 12 May 2005 (UTC)