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Hamiltonian Systems, From Topology To Applications Through Analysis II - Geometric and Hamiltonian hydrodynamics via Madelung transform

Presenter
November 27, 2018
Keywords:
  • hydrodynamics
  • infinite-dimensional geometry
  • quantum information
  • Fisher–Rao metric
  • Newton’s equations
MSC:
  • 35Q35
  • 58B25
Abstract
We introduce a geometric framework to study Newton's equations on infinite-dimensional configuration spaces of diffeomorphisms and smooth probability densities. It turns out that several important PDEs of hydrodynamical origin can be described in this framework in a natural way. In particular, the so-called Madelung transform between the Schrödinger-type equations on wave functions and Newton's equations on densities turns out to be a Kähler map between the corresponding phase spaces, equipped with the Fubini-Study and Fisher-Rao information metrics. This is a joint work with G.Misiolek and K.Modin.