Particles, fluids and vortices

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2001-07-18

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0107041v1

Physics

Fluid Dynamics

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Classical particle mechanics on curved spaces is related to the flow of ideal fluids, by a dual interpretation of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. As in second quantization, the procedure relates the description of a system with a finite number of degrees of freedom to one with infinitely many degrees of freedom. In some two-dimensional fluid mechanics models a duality transformation between the velocity potential and the stream function can be performed relating sources and sinks in one model to vortices in the other. The particle mechanics counterpart of the dual theory is reconstructed. In the quantum theory the strength of sources and sinks, as well as vorticity are quantized; for the duality between theories to be preserved these quantization conditions must be related.

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