Nonpositive curvature on the area-preserving diffeomorphism group

DOI10.1016/j.geomphys.2004.06.005zbMath1073.37087MaRDI QIDQ556144

Stephen C. Preston

Publication date: 13 June 2005

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomphys.2004.06.005

zbMATH Keywords

stability; curvature; Lagrangian; fluid; diffeomorphism group; volume preserving

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

37N10: Dynamical systems in fluid mechanics, oceanography and meteorology

76E30: Nonlinear effects in hydrodynamic stability

58B20: Riemannian, Finsler and other geometric structures on infinite-dimensional manifolds

37K65: Hamiltonian systems on groups of diffeomorphisms and on manifolds of mappings and metrics

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