Dirac-bracket structure in multidimensional mode conversion

DOI10.1016/J.CNSNS.2011.05.013MaRDI QIDQ426132zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. J. Brizard, E. R. Tracy, A. N. Kaufman, D. Johnston, N. Zobin

Publication date 11 June 2012

Published in Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2011.05.013

zbMATH Keywords

Dirac bracket structureHamiltonian systemmode conversionPoisson structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Poisson manifolds; Poisson groupoids and algebroids (53D17) Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05)

Review text

This paper introduces a new structure in multidimensional mode conversion. The Dirac-bracket formalism has been recently studied in order to better understand the constrained Hamiltonian dynamics of fluids and plasmas. In this work, the authors first recall that the problem of linear mode conversion between two waves arises in many areas in physics. They present a brief introduction to Hamiltonian ray phase-space dynamics. They study the geometry of the (\(2n-2\))-dimensional conversion manifold, which naturally possesses a Dirac-bracket structure. Then, they introduce the conversion Dirac-bracket structure on the (\(2n-2\))-dimensional tangent plane and the orthogonal structure on its orthogonal 2-dimensional complement. Finally, they show how theses structures can be applied to mode conversion theory. Some recalls about Dirac structures are also given in an appendix.

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