The main result of this paper is a matched-pair decomposition of the space of symmetric contravariant tensors TQ. From this procedure two complementary Lie subalgebras of TQ under mutual interaction… Click to show full abstract
The main result of this paper is a matched-pair decomposition of the space of symmetric contravariant tensors TQ. From this procedure two complementary Lie subalgebras of TQ under mutual interaction arise. Introducing a lift operator, the matched pair decomposition of the space of Hamiltonian vector fields is determined. According to this realization, the Euler–Poincaré flows on such spaces are decomposed into two subdynamics: one is the Euler–Poincaré formulation of isentropic fluid flows, and the other one corresponds with Euler–Poincaré equations on contravariant tensors of order n⩾2.
               
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