- Series
- PDE Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- 006
- Speaker
- Cristel Chandre – Center for Theoretical Physics, Univ. Aix-Marseille
- Organizer
- Chongchun Zeng
Dirac'stheory of constrained Hamiltonian systems allows for reductions
of the dynamics in a Hamiltonian framework. Starting from an appropriate
set of constraints on the dynamics, Dirac'stheory provides a bracket
for the reduced dynamics. After a brief introduction of Dirac'stheory, I
will illustrate the approach on ideal magnetohydrodynamics and
Vlasov-Maxwell equations. Finally I will discuss the conditions under
which the Dirac bracket can be constructed and is a Poisson bracket.