Geometric Hydrodynamics via Madelung Transform
Differential Geometry
2022-11-15 v3 Mathematical Physics
math.MP
Abstract
We introduce a geometric framework to study Newton's equations on infinite-dimensional configuration spaces of diffeomorphisms and smooth probability densities. It turns out that several important PDEs of hydrodynamical origin can be described in this framework in a natural way. In particular, the Madelung transform between the Schr\"odinger equation and Newton's equations is a symplectomorphism of the corresponding phase spaces. Furthermore, the Madelung transform turns out to be a K\"ahler map when the space of densities is equipped with the Fisher-Rao information metric. We describe several dynamical applications of these results.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1711.00321,
title = {Geometric Hydrodynamics via Madelung Transform},
author = {Boris Khesin and Gerard Misiolek and Klas Modin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.00321},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
17 pages, 2 figures