Geodesic flows on semidirect-product Lie groups: geometry of singular measure-valued solutions

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Abstract: The EPDiff equation (or dispersionless Camassa-Holm equation in 1D) is a well known example of geodesic motion on the Diff group of smooth invertible maps (diffeomorphisms). Its recent two-component extension governs geodesic motion on the semidirect product mDiffcircledScalF, where mathcalF denotes the space of scalar functions. This paper generalizes the second construction to consider geodesic motion on mDiffcircledSmathfrakg, where mathfrakg denotes the space of scalar functions that take values on a certain Lie algebra (for example, mathfrakg=mathcalFotimesmathfrakso(3)). Measure-valued delta-like solutions are shown to be momentum maps possessing a dual pair structure, thereby extending previous results for the EPDiff equation. The collective Hamiltonians are shown to fit into the Kaluza-Klein theory of particles in a Yang-Mills field and these formulations are shown to apply also at the continuum PDE level. In the continuum description, the Kaluza-Klein approach produces the Kelvin circulation theorem.









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