Symmetry reduction and periodic solutions in Hamiltonian Vlasov systems

2019/01/28 by Robert Axel Neiss, R. A. Neiss, Neiss, R. A.
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory #math.DS

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1901.09571

22 pages, 1 figure

arxiv created 2019/01/28 · arxiv updated 2019/01/29

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss a general approach to find periodic solutions bifurcating from equilibrium points of classical Vlasov systems. The main access to the problem is chosen through the Hamiltonian representation of any Vlasov system, firstly put forward by Fröhlich, Knowles, and Schwarz, and generalized more recently by the author. The method transforms the problem into a setup of complex valued L² functions with phase equivariant Hamiltonian. Through Marsden-Weinstein symmetry reduction, the problem is mapped on a Hamiltonian system on the quotient manifold \mathbbS^L2/\mathbbS¹ which actually proves to be necessary to close many trajectories of the dynamics. As a toy model to apply the method we use the Harmonic Vlasov system, a non-relativistic Vlasov equation with attractive harmonic two-body interaction potential. The simple structure of this model allows to compute all of its solutions directly and therefore test the benefits of the Hamiltonian formalism and symmetry reduction in Vlasov systems.

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