Given an Ehresmann connection on the tangent bundle τ: TM → M we define a linear connection on the pull-back bundle τ*(TM). With the aid of this tool, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the existence of local coordinates in which a system of second-order differential equations is linear.
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Martı́nez et al. (1996) studied this question.
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