Singular Solutions of Euler–Poincaré Equations on Manifolds with Symmetry

DOI10.1007/978-3-0348-0451-6_12MaRDI QIDQ5253370zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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Publication date 5 June 2015

Published in Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0402044

zbMATH Keywords

Green's functionEinstein manifoldHamiltonian formEuler-Poincaré equationdiffeon

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with fluid mechanics (35Q35) Soliton equations (35Q51) Dynamical systems of geometric origin and hyperbolicity (geodesic and horocycle flows, etc.) (37D40) Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25)

Abstract: The EPDiff equation governs geodesic flow on the diffeomorphisms with respect to a chosen metric, which is typically a Sobolev norm on the tangent space of vector fields. EPDiff admits a remarkable ansatz for its singular solutions, called ``diffeons, whose momenta are supported on embedded subspaces of the ambient space. Diffeons are true solitons for some choices of the norm. The diffeon solution ansatz is a momentum map. Consequently. the diffeons evolve according to canonical Hamiltonian equations. We examine diffeon solutions on Einstein spaces that are "mostly" symmetric, i.e., whose quotient by a subgroup of the isometry group is 1-dimensional. An example is the two-sphere, whose isometry group $SO3$ contains $S^1$. In this situation, the singular diffeons (called ``Puckons) are supported on latitudes (``girdles) of the sphere. For this $S^1$ symmetry of the two-sphere, the canonical Hamiltonian dynamics for Puckons reduces from integral partial differential equations to a dynamical system of ordinary differential equations for their colatitudes. Explicit examples are computed numerically for the motion and interaction of the Puckons on the sphere with respect to the $H^1$ norm. We analyse this case and several other 2-dimensional examples. From consideration of these 2-dimensional spaces, we outline the theory for reduction of diffeons on a general manifold possessing a metric equivalent to the warped product of the line with the bi-invariant metric of a Lie group.

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