The classification of nonsingular multidimensional Dubrovin-Novikov brackets (Q1002790)

The paper starts from the problem of classification of the multidimensional Poisson brackets of hydrodynamic type \[ \{u^i(x),u^j(y)\} = \sum_{\alpha=1}^n(g^{ij\alpha}(u(x))\delta_{\alpha}(x-y)+ b_k^{ij\alpha}(u(x))u^k_{\alpha}(x)\delta(x-y)) \] which are useful in the Hamiltonian theory of systems of hydrodynamic type. The requirement of bilinearity and the Leibniz identity for a bracket of the above form, are equivalent to the condition that on arbitrary functionals \(I\) and \(J\) on the space of fields \(u(x)\) the bracket has the form \[ \displaystyle{\{I,J\}=\sum_{\alpha=1}^n\int{{\delta I}\over{\delta u^i(x)}}\left(g^{ij\alpha}(u(x)){{d}\over{dx^{\alpha}}}+b_k^{ij\alpha}(u(x)) u^k_{\alpha}(x)\right){{\delta J}\over{\delta u^j(x)}}d^nx} \] The main result - the classification theorem - reads as follows If one of the metrics \(g^{ij\alpha}(u)\) for a nondegenerate multidimensional Poisson bracket above forms singular pairs with all the remaining metrics of this bracket, then this Poisson bracket can be reduced to a constant form by a local change of coordinates.