Invariants and Labels in Lie-Poisson Systems

Details Invariants and Labels in Lie-Poisson Systems Invariants and Labels in Lie-Poisson Systems

1998-04-20

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9804032v1

Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 867, 109-119 (1998)

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Mathematical Physics

11 pages, RevTeX. To appear in Proceedings of the 13th Florida Workshop in Astronomy and Physics

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Reduction is a process that uses symmetry to lower the order of a Hamiltonian system. The new variables in the reduced picture are often not canonical: there are no clear variables representing positions and momenta, and the Poisson bracket obtained is not of the canonical type. Specifically, we give two examples that give rise to brackets of the noncanonical Lie-Poisson form: the rigid body and the two-dimensional ideal fluid. From these simple cases, we then use the semidirect product extension of algebras to describe more complex physical systems. The Casimir invariants in these systems are examined, and some are shown to be linked to the recovery of information about the configuration of the system. We discuss a case in which the extension is not a semidirect product, namely compressible reduced MHD, and find for this case that the Casimir invariants lend partial information about the configuration of the system.

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