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On the quest for generalized Hamiltonian descriptions of $3D$-flows generated by curl of a vector potential

Mathematical Physics 2020-04-22 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study Hamiltonian analysis of three-dimensional advection flow x˙=v(x)\mathbf{\dot{x}}=\mathbf{v}({\bf x}) of incompressible nature v=0\nabla \cdot {\bf v} ={\bf 0} assuming that dynamics is generated by the curl of a vector potential v=×A\mathbf{v} = \nabla \times \mathbf{A}. More concretely, we elaborate Nambu-Hamiltonian and bi-Hamiltonian characters of such systems under the light of vanishing or non-vanishing of the quantity A×A\mathbf{A} \cdot \nabla \times \mathbf{A}. We present an example (satisfying A×A0\mathbf{A} \cdot \nabla \times \mathbf{A} \neq 0) which can be written as in the form of Nambu-Hamiltonian and bi-Hamiltonian formulations. We present another example (satisfying A×A=0\mathbf{A} \cdot \nabla \times \mathbf{A} = 0) which we cannot able to write it in the form of a Nambu-Hamiltonian or bi-Hamiltonian system. On the hand, this second example can be manifested in terms of Hamiltonian one-form and yields generalized or vector Hamiltonian equations x˙i=ϵijkηj/xk\dot{x}_i = - \epsilon_{ijk}{\partial \eta_j}/{\partial x_k}.

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@article{arxiv.1906.04476,
  title  = {On the quest for generalized Hamiltonian descriptions of $3D$-flows generated by curl of a vector potential},
  author = {Oğul Esen and Partha Guha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.04476},
  year   = {2020}
}