Point vortices on a sphere: Stability of relative equilibria

DOI10.1063/1.532602zbMath0927.37013OpenAlexW2014668445MaRDI QIDQ4701527

Sergey Pekarsky, Jerrold E. Marsden

Publication date: 21 November 1999

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/3610/

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson reductionstability of relative equilibriadynamics of \(N\) point vorticesequivariant SO(3) symmetrynongreat circle equilateral triangleSO(3) invariants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids (76B47) Stability for nonlinear problems in mechanics (70K20) Hamilton's equations (70H05) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Stability theory for smooth dynamical systems (37C75) Stability problems for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H14)

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