scientific article; zbMATH DE number 16006
[For the entire collection see Zbl 0714.00021.] In two dimensions, the equations of the hydrodynamics of an incompressible fluid admit a Poisson structure which is given by the Lie bracket on the group of area preserving diffeomorphisms of the plane. In the Lagrange variables, the hydrodynamic equations induce a flow on this group. In Euler variables, a motion occurs on the orbits of the group action. In this case, the geometrical integrals of the motion (the integrals of the vorticity exponents) form a commutative Lie algebra. By introducing Clebsch variables, one can transform the hydrodynamic equations into a Hamiltonian system with the canonical Poisson bracket. This system has an algebra of geometrical integrals of motion which is non-commutative and whose general structure is unknown. However, there are important subalgebras; one of these is isomorphic to the algebra of Hamiltonian vector fields containing a countable two-parameter set of commuting integrals of motion. Although this is not enough to guarantee the integrability of two-dimensional hydrodynamics, the author conjectures that it is enough to make smooth velocity fields with rapidly changing stochastic behavior impossible.
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