A Variational Principle for Volume-Preserving Dynamics

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DOI10.2991/JNMP.2003.10.4.7zbMATH Open1051.70009arXivmath-ph/0305031OpenAlexW2031991175MaRDI QIDQ4459152FDOQ4459152

Paola Morando, Giuseppe Gaeta

Publication date: 25 March 2004

Published in: Journal of Nonlinear Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We provide a variational description of any Liouville (i.e. volume preserving) autonomous vector fields on a smooth manifold. This is obtained via a ``maximal degree variational principle; critical sections for this are integral manifolds for the Liouville vector field. We work in coordinates and provide explicit formulae.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0305031




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