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Two-dimensional ‘discrete hydrodynamics’ and Monge–Ampère equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2002

JÜRGEN MOSER  and
ALEXANDER P. VESELOV
JÜRGEN MOSER
Affiliation:
Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
ALEXANDER P. VESELOV
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK and Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Moscow, Russia (e-mail: A.P.Veselov@lboro.ac.uk)
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Abstract

An integrable discrete-time Lagrangian system on the group of area-preserving plane diffeomorphisms \mathit{SDiff}(\mathbb{R}^{2}) is considered. It is shown that non-trivial dynamics exists only for special initial data and the corresponding mapping can be interpreted as a Bäcklund transformation for the (simple) Monge–Ampère equation. In the continuous limit, this gives the isobaric (constant pressure) solutions of the Euler equations for an ideal fluid in two dimensions. In the Appendix written by E. V. Ferapontov and A. P. Veselov, it is shown how the discrete system can be linearized using the transformation of the simple Monge–Ampère equation going back to Goursat.

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Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 2002 , pp. 1575 - 1583
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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