Clebsch variational principles in field theories and singular solutions of covariant EPDiff equations

DOI10.1016/S0034-4877(13)60032-4zbMATH Open1286.49057arXiv1209.0109OpenAlexW3104477159MaRDI QIDQ362116FDOQ362116

Authors: François Gay-Balmaz 

Publication date: 20 August 2013

Published in: Reports on Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper introduces and studies a field theoretic analogue of the Clebsch variational principle of classical mechanics. This principle yields an alternative derivation of the covariant Euler-Poincar'e equations that naturally includes covariant Clebsch variables via multisymplectic momentum maps. In the case of diffeomorphism groups, this approach gives a new interpretation of recently derived singular peakon solutions of Diff(R)-strand equations, and allows for the construction of singular solutions (such as filaments or sheets) for a more general class of equations, called covariant EPDiff equations. The relation between the covariant Clebsch principle and other variational principles arising in mechanics and field theories, such as Hamilton-Pontryagin principles, is explained through the introduction of a class of covariant Pontryagin variational principles in field theories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.0109

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zbMATH Keywords

classical field theoriesClebsch variational principlecovariant EPDiff equationscovariant momentum mapscovariant Pontryagin variational principles

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Optimality conditions (49K99) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Classical field theories (70S99)

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