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Hamiltonian Formalism of Extended Magnetohydrodynamics

Plasma Physics 2015-06-11 v2

Abstract

The extended magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) system, including the Hall effect and the electron inertia effect, has a Hamiltonian structure embodied by a noncanonical Poisson algebra on an infinite-dimensional phase space. A nontrivial part of the formulation is the proof of Jacobi's identity for the Poisson bracket. We unearth a basic Lie algebra that generates the Poisson bracket. A class of similar Poisson algebra may be generated by the same Lie algebra, which encompasses the Hall MHD system and inertial MHD system.

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@article{arxiv.1412.6228,
  title  = {Hamiltonian Formalism of Extended Magnetohydrodynamics},
  author = {Hamdi M. Abdelhamid and Yohei Kawazura and Zensho Yoshida},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.6228},
  year   = {2015}
}

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17 pages