Ideal magnetohydrodynamics and passive scalar motion as geodesics on semidirect product groups

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/27/2/004zbMath0824.76091OpenAlexW1991798357MaRDI QIDQ4836551

Yuji Hattori

Publication date: 19 June 1995

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/27/2/004

zbMATH Keywords

divergence-free vector fieldsinfinite-dimensional Lie groupvolume-preserving diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

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