Riemannian curvature on the group of area-preserving diffeomorphisms (motions of fluid) of 2-sphere

Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 377-389

  Yoshida, Kyo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 j coefficients; Geodesic; Group of diffeomorphisms; Riemannian curvature tensor

Indexed keywords

EID: 10144262301     PISSN: 01672789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(96)00192-3     Document Type: Article

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