Original manuscript: 2001/03/02
Manuscript last revised: 2002/07/08

Strong conditions, involving first-order symmetric products, are given for controllability of affine connection control systems. The conditions generalise, at the first-order level, earlier conditions for affine connection control systems, and involve the use of a vector-valued quadratic form as the essential ingredient in the statement of the results.

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