The Madelung transform as a momentum map

DOI10.3934/JGM.2017006zbMATH Open1440.53095arXiv1512.04611OpenAlexW2963237352MaRDI QIDQ2397513FDOQ2397513

Authors: Daniel Fusca 

Publication date: 22 May 2017

Published in: Journal of Geometric Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Madelung transform relates the non-linear Schr"odinger equation and a compressible Euler equation known as the quantum hydrodynamical system. We prove that the Madelung transform is a momentum map associated with an action of the semidirect product group $mathrmDiff(mathbb{R}^n)ltimes{C}^{i}nfty(mathbb{R}^n)$, which is the configuration space of compressible fluids, on the space $Psi$ of wave functions. In particular, we show that the Madelung transform is a Poisson map taking the natural Poisson bracket on $Psi$ to the compressible fluid Poisson bracket, and observe that the Madelung transform provides an example of "Clebsch variables" for the hydrodynamical system.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04611

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zbMATH Keywords

moment mapMadelung transformquantum fluidsemidirect product groupnonlinear Schrödinger

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics (37K65) Momentum maps; symplectic reduction (53D20) Quantum hydrodynamics and relativistic hydrodynamics (76Y05)

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