An equivariant Reeb–Beltrami correspondence and the Kepler–Euler flow

We prove that the correspondence between Reeb and Beltrami vector fields presented in Etnyre & Ghrist (Etnyre, Ghrist 2000 Nonlinearity 13, 441–458 (doi:10.1088/0951-7715/13/2/306)) can be made equivariant whenever additional symmetries of the underlying geometric structures are considered. As a...

ver descrição completa

Detalhes bibliográficos
Autores: Fontana-McNally, J., Miranda, E., Peralta-Salas, D.
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2024
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositório:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/405239
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/405239
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85184035966&doi=10.1098%2frspa.2023.0499&partnerID=40&md5=c6ef4b53add4d8eea16a2be8bd38f58b
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Beltrami vector field
Contact geometry
Euler equations
Lifted metric
Reeb vector field
Astrophysics
Flow of fluids
Geometry
Hamiltonians
Beltrami
Beltramus vector field
Euler flows
Stationary fluid flow
Potential energy
Vector fields
Descrição
Resumo:We prove that the correspondence between Reeb and Beltrami vector fields presented in Etnyre & Ghrist (Etnyre, Ghrist 2000 Nonlinearity 13, 441–458 (doi:10.1088/0951-7715/13/2/306)) can be made equivariant whenever additional symmetries of the underlying geometric structures are considered. As a corollary of this correspondence, we show that energy levels above the maximum of the potential energy of mechanical Hamiltonian systems can be viewed as stationary fluid flows, though the metric is not prescribed. In particular, we showcase the emblematic example of the n-body problem and focus on the Kepler problem. We explicitly construct a compatible Riemannian metric that makes the Kepler problem of celestial mechanics a stationary fluid flow (of Beltrami type) on a suitable manifold, the Kepler–Euler flow. ©2024 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.