The geometry of a vorticity model equation
The geometry of a vorticity model equation
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DOI:
10.3934/cpaa.2012.11.1407
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发表时间:
2010-10
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1
通讯作者:
J. Escher;B. Kolev;Marcus Wunsch
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作者:
J. Escher;B. Kolev;Marcus Wunsch
We show that the modified Constantin-Lax-Majda equation modeling vortex and quasi-geostrophic dynamics [27] can be recast as the geodesic flow on the subgroup $\mathrm{Diff}_{1}^{\infty}(\mathbb{S})$ of orientation-preserving diffeomorphisms $\varphi \in \mathrm{Diff}^{\infty}(\mathbb{S})$ such that $\varphi(1) = 1$ equipped with the right-invariant metric induced by the homogeneous Sobolev norm $\dot H^{1/2}$. On the extended group of diffeomorphisms of Sobolev class $H^{k}$ with $k\ge 2$, this induces a weak Riemannian structure. We establish that the geodesic spray is smooth and we obtain local existence and uniqueness of the geodesics.